ABSTRACT
Modern research into the nature of the human brain has revealed it as resembling in some ways one of our typical old country mansions; it is a patch-work of many periods. The kitchens are still used as kitchens and the store-rooms as store-rooms—and, one may add, the antique dungeons still contain some grisly relics, often quite unknown to the polite inhabitants of the spacious modern drawing-rooms. The ‘old brain’ in man bears a strong resemblance to the brains of the higher animals, such as the dog. It contains the centres which receive and correlate the messages received through the nervous system from without—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. The ‘new brain’ is confined to man and certain of the apes, and is of course much more fully developed in the former.
