AMBIDEXTERITY
Dr. Haenkel, a well-known German physician, writing in the' Hamburg Nachrichten, recommends the education of the left hand as a method of mental development by bringing the right lobe of the brain into activity. He says that in this way we can add fifty per cent, to our power, and that the left hand is actually more deft and has a more deli eate touch than the right. The violinist and a pianist exact the same service from both hands, and many of the greatest artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Hoibein, and Landseer, -were ambidexterous. The Japanese are taught in school to use both hands alike, and, says Dr. Haenkel, "their astonishing manual dexterity and military genius, I believe, u« traceable to this alone."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 10
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126AMBIDEXTERITY Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 10
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