APPETITE AND THE BRAIN

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 5

APPETITE AND THE BRAIN

ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER STB ARTHUR KEITH'S VIEWS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 1. Sir Arthur Keith, lecturing at King’s College, made an interesting analysis of tho character of the student habit, do expressed the opinion that tho energy in an ounce of sugar would be enough to produce any of Shakespeare’s plays if it found its way to tho brain of an equally-gifted poet. An ordinaryman’s appetite was not that of a, brain worker, but a muscle user. Sooner or later tho stomach of the professional student had to pay tho price as Carlyle, Darwin. Huxley, and Spencer did. They wen l all sufferers from student disease. The, more, students gave their stomachs the higher they had to pay. Tho majority of eminent scholars .with no scholarly lineage came from the Highland villages. There were vast virgin fields of untapped talent. It was possible to damage the body by overstudy, but not the brain. No man ever used bis brain up to its full capacity.—A. and N.Z. Cable.