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With torrents wild and tempest blast, 



And fierce volcanic fires, " ■ 



In secret molds, has Nature cast 

 Her monoliths and spires. 



Their shadows linger where we tread, 



Their beauty fills the place :' 

 A broken shrine — its votaries fled — 



A spurned and vanished race. 



Untouched by Time the garden gleams, • 



Unplucked the wild flower shines, 

 And the scarred summit's rifted seams 



Are bright with glistening pines. 



And still the guileless heart that waits 



At Nature's feet may find. 

 Within the rosy, sun-lit gates, 



A hidden glory shrined; 



His presence feel to whom, in fear, 



Untaught, the savage prayed. 

 And, listening in the garden, hear 



His voice, nor be afraid. 



' — Harper's Magazine for December. 



BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE COMPARED. 



The brain is universally recognized as the organ of mind, and the size of 

 this organ is very generally taken as an index of mental capacity. Big brains 

 have come to be suggestive of great minds, while it is an undoubted fact that the 

 possession of a brain which falls below a certain minimum standard of weight im- 

 plies idiocy on the part of its unfortunate possessor. M. Broca places the lowest 

 limit of brain-weight compatible with human intelligence at thirty-seven ounces 

 in males and thirty-two in females, the average brain-weight in Europeans be- 

 ing about forty-nine ounces. Whether the possession of more than the average 

 quantity of brain implies the presence of more than average intelligence is a ques- 

 tion that has given rise to much discussion. It is an undoubted fact that very 

 high brain-weights are occasionally found in people whose mental acquirements 

 are certainly not above the average. Out of 157 brain-weights of adult Scotsmen, 

 Dr. Peacock found that four, all belonging to artisans, who, so far as could be 

 learned, had not been distinguished among their fellows by superior intellectual 

 endowment, weighed over sixty ounces each, while the heaviest brain on record 

 — it weighed sixty-seven ounces — belonged to a bricklayer. Dr. Morris, who 



