Excerpt from Talks on Education and Oratory Can brain power be increased by special means of development, thus insuring larger success? Yes. These brain nerves can be so strengthened and so multiplied in number and in their connections as to grow an average mind into a great one. They grow by use and by nourishment. They are used when we observe, think, feel and imagine. They receive their physical nourishment from the blood, and their mental nourishment from the impressions of the outside world. But, only when the brain is in all respects rightly used, when the blood is of the best quality and when all of the impressions, or mental images taken into the mind, from nature and experience or through the medium of books, are of the highest degree of do the brain nerves grow rapidly and vigorously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.