MAN'S HYPOCRISY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

MAN'S HYPOCRISY.

What hypocrisy is has been generally understood ever since St. Luke identified it as a regrettable trait of the Pharisees. Why it persists, why it continues in the news, has now been looked into by the science of physiology. Professor Walter Bradford Cannon, of Boston, who has made important researches into bodily changes in pain, fear and rage, finds that hypocrites cannot help their failing. It is a physical disability. In the grey matter at the side of the third ventricle at the base of the brain, and a part connected with the origin of the nerve of vision, the mid-brain region, where nerves of sensation assemble, there is a defect. Experiments on animals showed that this thalamic region co-ordinates emotional reactions, and anything wrong with it brings disharmony between it and the intellect or higher brain. The underdevelopment, or fault, causes the human subject to laugh when he does not feel joy, weep when he is not grieving, or assume a character not real. " t ..~~~ "...," ■.\:i^,^ f ,^