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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 240, 23 September 1922, Page 7

A very interesting lecture on “Brains, Democracy, and in emesis,” was delivered by Dr. A. Clark to tne H.B. Philosopnical Institute last night. The lecturer showed by diagrams the difference between the structure of the normal and inferior brain. This yas fixed at birth and could not be altered by education, except so tar as the brain was destroyed by alcohol or disease. He pointed out that tests of intelligence showed that nearly 25 per cent, of the population was of markedly inferior intelligence, people without the power to form abstract ideas and unable to resist suggestion. Yet all these people had the vote, and were asked to express their views on the'highly abstract questions of the day. Dr. Clark also pointed out that the mental faculties developed at different times; the reasoning faculties rarely below the age of 12, and he gave some amusing illustrations drawn Irom tests of school children. In passing, he referred to psychoanalytic tests in their bearing on crime ami punishment. And he closed a very inte resting and suggestive lecture by assuring his hearers that he believed the race had progressed and would continue to progress. A number of questions were asked and answered, and a hearty vote of thanks was given to the lecturer.