More Mind, More Madness.
It is no way surprising that insanity should _ seem to increase in races /or/classes; wKjijh * are being intellectually stimulated^ £_P3fj education. Thore is always in. every coini, r " munity a proportion of brains which, being .* brought into action, will brqak dcrjv'p.; f This proportion doubtless dimim^es. ajij the communiby is elevated, ahd.i^^a fey generations the result; of; culture - i^ay-%'■■' probably, will—be to develop"., a , bpttgjr, stock,' looking upon the people as a whole-f. but -at the outset of the »iucatipriary r process, and in the generation first teughfy , the immediate: result may be a i TOnsideiw ■ able number: of wreckings. ThiSiigenpraJ principle is applicable to all raesegj^pepples, r and classes, and it explains why fhe.finjjb; effect of trying to elevate bhe. negroes hag, : been to produce an apparent; increase -of insanity among them. \, .!** •;-:' .rilst-i'l) v-o/ia
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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