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This i:em is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmi au taux de rMuction indiquA ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 2ex 30X y 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32X «!PIP The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks to the generosity of: Nationai Library of Canada L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grfice d la g^m^ the advantages to be derived by all from a systematic cultivation of dexterity in boti hands. Bencosie, Toronto, 24th April 1801. CONTENTS Hand CHAPTER I PAGE 1 CHAPTER II IE Educated Hand 12 CHAPTER III tE Willing Hand • • • • CHAPTER IV kL^OLiTHic Dexterity CHAPTER V IE Dishonoured Hand 23 31 • f . 62 CHAPTER VI IE Primitive Abacus . . . , ,7^ CONTENTS CHAPTER VII The Compass Points CHAPTER VIII Handwriting CHAPTER IX Psycho-Physical Action CHAPTER X Conflict op Theories . • • CHAPTER XI Hand ano Brain 11^ mi 1831 CHAPTER I THE HAND ^HE hand is one of the most distinctive character- itics of man. Without its special organisation le would be for all practical purposes inferior many other animals. It is the executive por- ion of the upper limb whereby the limits of is capacity as "the tool-user" are determined. Ls such, it is the active agent of the primary mse of touch, the organ of the will, the in- brument which works harmoniously with brain id heart, and by means of which imagination id idealism are translated into fact. With- Jt it man's intellectual superiority would be a large extent abortive. In its combina- ion of st'^ngth with delicacy, it is an index of Character in all its variations in man and woman S> B .'1 a LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. hi ! from childhood to old age. It is an exponent of the refinement of high civilisation, no less than the organ of all dexterity and force of the skilled inventor and mechanician. In the art of the true painter, as in works of Titian and Vandyke^ the portraiture of the hand is no less replete with individuality than the face. In so far as the hand is to be recognised as the organ of touch or feeling, it plays a different part from the other organs of the senses. It is no mere passive recipient of impressions, but selects the objects to be subjected to its discrimination, and communicates the results to the central organ : the seat of intelligence. As a responsive agent of the mind it is the productive artificer. In its independ- ent estimate of form and texture it performs for all of us the function of sight in the darkness ; and to the blind it is an eye wherewith they are enabled to receive correct impressions of external nature, and to read for themselves the lettered page. The hand, moreover, has an utterance of its own. The un- premeditated actions of the orator harmoniously emphasis his speech; and in strong emotional excitem* t, the movements of the hands are scarcely less expressive than the tongue. There are, indeed, CHAP. iMl ^ THE HAND 3 [occasions when its symbolic speech needs no audible |accompaniment. The repelling action of the out- stretched palm, accompanied by the averted head, m dispense with words ; and the hand in benedic- tion has no need of them. The imagination realises the amplest significance of such gestures, as in the inal parting of Arthur and Guinevere — She in the darkness o'^er her fallen head Perceived the waving of his hands that blest. |ln discussing the specialty of right-handedness, jither as an expansion or limitation of the use of the hand, it is not necessary to enlarge on the listinctive anatomical relations of the human hand the fore-limb of other animals ; for if the final results here set forth are correct, the preferential md instinctive employment of one limb and ex- (iremity is not an exclusive attribute of man Fevsrtheless the hand is one of the most charac- jristic human features. The practical distinction jtween man and any approximate living creature lies in the fact that the most highly developed iinthropoid, while in a sense four-handed, has no ^uch delicate instrument of manipulation as that diich distinguishes man from all other animals. IL most monkeys there is a separate and movable LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP, thumb in all the four limbs. The characteristic whereby their hallux, or great toe, instead of being parallel with the others, and so adapted for standing and walking erect, has the power of action of a thumb, gives the prehensile character of a hand to the hind-limb. This is not confined to the arboreal apes. It is found in the baboons and others that are mainly terrestrial in their habits, and employ the four limbs ordinarily in moving on the ground. The human hand h an organ so delicately fashioned that the biologist has, not unnaturally, turned to it in search of a typical structural significance. By reason of its mobility and its articulated structure, it is specially adapted to be an organ of touch ; and the fine sense which education confers on it tends still further to widen the difference between the human hand and that of the ape. Hence Cuvier's long - accepted deter- mination of a separate order for man as bimanous. But this classification is no longer tenable. Man is, indeed, still admitted to form a single genus, IToTno ; but in the levelling process of scientific revolution he has been relegated to a place in the same order with the monkeys and, possibly, the lemurs, which in the development of the thumb ^ THE HAND 5 are more manlike than the apes. In reality, looking simply to man as thus compared with the highest anthropoid apes, the order of Quadrumana is more open to challenge than that of the Bimana. The hind-limb of the ape approaches anatomically much more to the human foot than the hand; while the fore-limb is a true though inferior hand. The ap3's hind-limb is indeed prehensile, as is the foot of man in some degree ; but alike anatomically and physiologically the fore -limb of the ape, like the hand of man, is the prehensile organ 'par eoccellcnce; while the primary function of the hind- limb is locomotion. There are unquestionably traces of prehensile capacity in the human foot ; and even of remark- able adaptability to certain functions of the hand. Well-known cases have occurred of persons born without hands, or early deprived of them, learning ;to use their feet in manj' delicate operations, including not only the employment of pen and pencil, but the use of scissors, with a facility which demonstrates the latent capacity for separate action [of the great toe, and its thumblike apposition to the others. In 1882 I witnessed, in the Museum [at Antwerp, an artist without arms skilfully use li!i^ LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. his brushes with his right foot. He employed it with great ease, arranging his materials, opening his box of colours, selecting and compressing his tubes, and "handling" his brush, seemingly with a dexterity fully equal to that of his more favoured rivals. At an earlier date, during a visit to Boston, I had an opportunity of observing a woman, under similar disadvantages, execute elaborate pieces of scissor-work, and write not only with neatness, but with great rapidity. Nevertheless the human foot, in its perfect natural development, is not a hand. The small size of the toes as compared with the fingers, and the position and movements of the great toe, alike point to diverse functions and a greatly more limited range of action. But the capacity of the system of muscles of the foot — scarcely less elaborate than that of the hand, — is obscured to us by the rigid restraints of the modern shoe. The power of voluntary action in the toes manifests itself not only in cases where early mutilation, or malformation at birth, compels the substitution of the foot for the hand ; but among savages, where the unshackled foot is in constant use in climbing and feeling its way through brake and jungle, the free use of tae toes, and the power of separating i ! CHAP. 3063 of jss, but in foot, i hand, th the ''^ e great greatly city of y less to us The nifests ion, or ion of where mbing le, the I THE HAND 7 tlie great toe from the others, aie retained in the same way as may be seen in the involuntary ovements of a healthy child. When camping lut in long vacation holidays in the Canadian wilds, repeated experience has proved to me that he substitution for a few weeks of the soft, yield- g deerskin moccasin of the Indian, in place of the igid shoe, restores even to the unpractised foot of ivilised man a freedom of action in the toes, a iscriminating sense of touch, and a capacity for rasping rock or tree in walking or climbing, of which he has had no previous conception. The Australian picks up his spear with the naked foot; and the moccasin of the American Indian scarcely ■diminishes the like capacity to take hold of stick or tone. The Hindi tailor, in like manner, sits on the ground holding the cloth tightly stretched with is toes, while both hands are engaged in the work f the needle. Such facts justify the biologist in regarding this lement of structural difference between man and the apes as inadequate for the determination of a specific zoological classification. Nevertheless man till stands apart as the tool-maker, the tool-user, the manipulator. A comparison between the fore 8 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. and hind limbs of the Chimpanzee, or other ape, leaves the observer in doubt whether to name them alike as hands or feet, both being locomotive as well as prehensile organs ; whereas the difference between the hand and foot of man is obvious, and points to essentially diverse functions. The short, weak thumb, the long, nearly uniform fingers, and the inferior play of the wrist in the monkey, are in no degree to be regarded as defects. They are advantageous to the tree-climber, and pertain to its hand as an organ of locomotion ; whereas the absence of such qualities in the human hand secures its permanent delicacy of touch, and its general adaptation for many manipulative purposes. The hand of man is thus eminently adapted to be the instrument for translating the conceptions of intelligent volition into concrete results. Dr. George Wilson in his fine prose poem : " The Five Gateways of Knowledge," speaks of it as giving expression "to the genius and the wit, the courage and the affection, the will and the power of man. . . . The term handicraftsman or hand- worker belongs to all honest, earnest men and women, and is a title which each should covet. For the Queen's hand there is the sceptre, and for the soldier's hand the sword ; for le ca THE HAND le carpenter's hand the saw, and for the smith's ^nd the hammer ; for the farmer's hand the plough, )r the miner's hand the spade, for the sailor's hand 16 oar, for the painter's hand the brush, for the Ipulptor's hand the chisel, for the poet's hand the pen, and for the woman's hand the needle. If none of these, or the like, will fit us, the felon's oliain should be round our wrist, and our hand on tte prisoner's crank. But for each willing man and ^man there is a tool they may learn to handle; all there is the command : ' Whatsoever thy hand ideth to do, do it with all thy might.'" Other animals have their implements for con- ictive skill, and their weapons, offensive and [fensive, as parts of their organic being ; and are led, equipped, clad, and mailed by no effort of tieir own. But man, inferior to all in offensive and defensive appliances, is a match for his most formid- s^le assailants by means of appliances furnished by Mi dexterous hand in obedience to the promptings o# intelligent volition. The matured capacity of the hand is the necessary concomitant of man's intellectual development ; not CB^y enabling him to fashion all needful tools, and place at a disadvantage the fiercest of his assailants Ff- 10 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP, armed by nature with formidable weapons of assault ; but also to respond no less effectually to every prompting of the aesthetic faculty in the most delicate artistic creations. The very arts of the ingenious nest-makers, the instinctive weavers or builders, the spider, the bee, the ant, or the beaver, place them in striking contrast to man in relation to his handiwork. He alone, in the strict sense of the term, is a manufacturer. The Quadrumana, though next to man in the approximation of their fore -limbs to hands, claim no place among the instinctiv architects, weavers, or spinners. The human hand as an instrument of constructive design or artistic skill, ranks wholly apart from all the organsi employed in the production of analogous worb; among the lower animals. The hand of the ape^ accomplishes nothing akin to the masonry of the? swallow, or the damming and building of the! beaver. But, imperfect though it seems, it suffices; for all requirements of the forest -dweller. IdI climbing trees, in gathering and shelling nuts aij pods, opening shell-fish, tearing off the rind of fruit j or pulling up roots ; in picking out thorns or bursf from its own fur, or in the favourite occupatioil of hunting for each other's parasites : the monkel iillli OHAl'. ssault ; every lelicate Tenious 3rs. the hem ill iiwork, 1, is a lext to nabs to binctivt a hand artistic organs worl{; le ape I of the- of the I suffices! auts oij 3f fruit! or burs| upatioii nonkej r. I * THE HAND 11 Ses the finger and thumb; and in many otlier jrations performs with the hand what is executed the quadruped or bird less effectually by means the mouth or bill. At first sight we might be fmpted to assume that the quadrumanous mammal ul the advantage of us, as there are certainly ^any occasions when an extra hand could be irned to useful account. But not only do man's ^0 liands prove greatly more serviceable for all bgher purposes of manipulation than the four hands the ape : a further specialty distinguishing him he rises in the scale of intellectual superiority is lat he seems to widen still more the divergence )m the quadrumanous anthropoid by converting le hand into the favoured organ and servant of will, while the other is relegated to a wholly ibordinate place as its mere help and supplement. CHAPTER 11 THE EDUCATED HAND The reign of law is a phrase comprehensive enougH to embrace many points of minor import; an( among those assigned to its sway the prevalei habit of right-handedness has been recognised one of too familiar experience to seem to stand need of further explanation. It has been accepte as the normal usage and law of action common the whole race; and so no more in need of ad special reason for its existence than any othe^ function of the hand. Nevertheless it has nc wholly eluded investigation; nor is it surprising that the exceptional but strongly marked deviatioESJ from the normal law should have attracted the| notice of thoughtful observers to the quesuox. oii right-handedness as a curious and unsolved probleml [AP. II THE EDUCATED HAND 13 philosophic speculator of the seventeenth century, Ihe famous old Norwich physician, Sir Thomas Jrowne, reverts ch racteristically to the mystic mcies of the Talmud for guidance, as he turns to the Question in its simplest aspect, and quaintly ignores Ihe existence of its foundation. With his strong 3iit towards Platonic mysticism, this question, like kher and higher speculations witli which he dallied, |)resented itself in relation to what may well be died " first principles," as an undetermined prob- }in. " Whether," says he in his Religio Medici, Eve was framed out of the left side of Adam, I (ispute not, because I stand not yet assured which the right side of a man, or whether there be any Juch distinction in nature." That there is a right ide in man is a postulate not likely to be seriously lisputed ; but whether there is such a distinction in iature remains still unsettled two centuries and a lalf after the inquiry was thus started. The same question was forced on the attention of an eminent j>hilosophic speculator of our own day, under cir- cumstances that involved a practical realisation ^f its significance. Towards the close of a long tfe in which Thomas Carlyle had unceasingly plied ^is busy pen, the dexterous right hand, that had un- 14 LEFT-HANDEDNES3 OBAP. Ill' ill: flaggingly toiled for upwards of threescore years in the service of his fellow-men, was suddenly paralysed. , The period of life \^as all too late for him to turn with any hope of success to the unaccustomed and untrained left hand ; and more than one entry in his journal refers to the irreparable loss. But one i curious embodiment of the reflections suggested by thib privation is thus recorded by him upwards of a year after experience had familiarised him with all that the loss involved: "Curious to consider the] institution of the Eight hand among universal man- kind ; probably the very oldest human institution! that exists, indispensable to all human co-operation whatsoever. He that has seen three mowers, one of whom is left-handed, trying to work together, and how impossible it is, has witnessed the simplest] form of an impossibility, which but for the distinc- tion of a 'right hand,' would have pervaded all| human things. Have often thought of all that, — never saw it so clearly as this morning while out I walking, unslept and dreary enough in the windy sunshine. How old ? Old ! I wonder if there is | any people barbarous enough not to have this dis- tinction of hands ; no human Cosmos possible to be I even begun without it. Oldest Hebrews, etc., writ- II THE EDUCATED HAND 15 ing from right to left, are as familiar with the world- old institution as we. Why that particular hand I was choser is a question not to be settled, not worth asking except as a kind of riddle ; probably ! arose in fighting; most important to protect your heart and its adjacencies, and to carry the shield on [that hand." This idea of the left hand being preoccupied I with the shield, and so leaving to the other the active functions of the sword and spear hand, is familiar to the classical student, and will fitly come [under review at a later stage. Nor can such [secondary influences be overlooked. Whatever may [prove to be the primary source of right-handedness, lit cannot be doubted that, when thoroughly devel- [oped and systematically recognised as determining [the character of many combined operations, the [tendency would inevitably be to foster the preferen- tial use of the right hand even in indifferent actions. [Two causes have thus to be recognised as operating |in the development of right-handedness, and beget- ting certain differences in its manifestation under Jvarying social influences. There is a progressive scale, from the imperfect to the more perfectly ieveloped, and then to the perfectly educated hand ; ■sf IP n LEJT-HANDEDNESS OHA?. all steps ill its adaptation to the higher purposes] of the manipulator. The hand of the rude savage, of the sailor, the miner, or blacksmith, while welli fitted for the work to which it is applied, is a veryj different instrument from that of '^he chase:, engraver, or cameo-cutter; of the musician, painter,! or sculptor. This difference is unquestionably a; result of development, whatever the other may be; I for, as we have in the ascending scale the civilised! and educated man, so also we have the educated j hand as one of the most characteristic features o{| civilisation. But here attention is at once called j to the distinctive preference of the right hand, whether as the natural use of this more perfect! organ of manipulation, or as an acquired result ofj civilisation. The phenomenon to be explained is not merely why each individual uses one handj rather than another. Experience abundantly ac- counts for this. But if it can be shown that all I nations, civilised and savage, appear to have used I the same hand, it is vain to look for the origiDj of this as an acquired habit. Only by referring it to some anatomical cause can its general prevalence,! among all races and in every age, be satisfactorily! accounted for. Nevertheless this simple phenol II THE EDUCATED HAND ■W jmenon, cognisant to the experience of all, and brought under constant notice in our daily inter- course with others, long baffled the physiologist in [his search for a satisfactory e^iplanation. The sense of touch— "The Feel-Gate" of Bun- ran's famous Town of Mansoul, — is not limited, ike the other senses, to one special organ, but )ervades the entire body ; and in its acute suscep- bibihty to every irritant contact, communicates in- stantaneously with the vital cerebral centre of the rhole nervous system by means of the electric chords )r nerves. So effectual is this that " if one member iffer, all the members suffer with it." Nevertheless Ihe hand is correctly recognised as the active organ pf feeling ; and by the delicately sensitive and well- rained fingers impressions are promptly conveyed the brain and to the mind, relative to the ^uahties of all bodies within reach of the unfailing 3st of touch. In hearing and seeing the dual rgans are in constant co-operation, and the injury either involves a loss of power. But though we ive two hands sensitive to all external impressions, ily one of them is hebitually recognised as the Jtive agent of the brain ; and except in a compara- rdy small number of cases, this is the hand on m LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. the right side of the body. It is surprising that this phenomenon so universally recognised as what may be styled an instinctive attribute of man, should not long since have been traced to its true source. Yet, as will be seen, some among the ablest anatomists have been content to refer it to mere habit, stereotyped by long usage and the exigencies of combined action into a general practice; while! others have referred it to the disposition of the viscera, and the place of the heart on the left side. The hand is the universal symbol of amity ; at once | the organ and the emblem of friendly co-operation j and brotherhood. The mystic grip of the freemason is older than the builder's art. In the gestura-language so largely in use among savage tribes the hands take the place of the tongue ; and the relations ofl the right and left hand acquire fresh significance inl the modification of signs. Mr. Garrick Mallerjl gives the expression of amity among the Otos thus;! " The left and right hands are brought to centre of| the chest open, then extended, and the left banc with palm up, is grasped crosswise by right handl with palm down, and held thus." So in like! manner among the Dakotas : " The left hand heldj horizontal, palm inward, fingers and thumb extendeill ■* J ill Symbolic Monograph, Moro Insciubed Rock, Rio de Zuni. I'o face page ll^ mmm II THE EDUCATED HAND 19 and pointing towards the right, is clasped by the right hand." In those and other expressive gestures the left hand is employed to indicate the non ego: the other than the gesture-maker. So also among other rude Indian tribes of North America, no less than among the civilised and lettered nations in the centres of native civilisation in Mexico, Central America, and Peru, the hand is familiarly employed not only as a graven or written symbol, but is literally impressed, apparently as the equivalent of a signet. The sign of the ex- panded right hand touching the left arm occupies a prominent place among the graven hieroglyphics on an Aztec stone hatchet shown by Humboldt in his Vues des CordilUres. The graven Moro Kock in the [valley of the Eio de Zuni includes more than one similar device among its elaborate inscriptions and pictographs; one of which is speciallj'^ noticeable, [inscriptions in the Spanish language, some of them [with dates referable to the first intrusion of European [explorers, are intermingled with the native hiero- glyphs. In one example the sacred monograph LH.S. is enclosed in the same cartouch with an open land characterised by a double thumb, — possibly the native counterpart to the Christian symbol, — a 80 LEFT-HANDEDNES3 CHAP. m lip hand of superbuman capacity and power. School- craft says : " The figure of the human hand is used by the North American Indians to denote supplica- tion to the Deity or Great Spirit; and it stands in the system of picture-writing as the symbol for strength, power, or mastery thus derived." But the use of the hand as the chief organ of gesture- language shows how varied are the applications that it admits of as a significant emblem. Washington Irving remarks in his Astoria: "The Arickaree warriors were painted in the most savage style. Some had the stamp of a red hand across their mouths, a sign that they had drunk the life-blood of a foe." Catlin found the same symbol in usej not only for decoration, but as the actual sign- manual among the Omahaws and the Mandans. I! have repeatedly observed the red hand impressed on the buffalo robe, and also occasionally on the| naked breast of the Chippewas of Lake Superior. In the sculptured hieroglyphics of Central I America, and in the Mexican picture-writings, the human and other profiles are introduced in the large majority of examples looking to the left, as would be the natural result of the tracings of a I right-handed draftsman. But the hand is also! II THE EDUCATED HAND 21 employed symbolically ; while, among the civilised Peruvians, the impress of the naked hand was practised in the same way as by the Indians of the northern continent. Among an interesting collec- tion of mummies recovered by Mr. J. H. Blake of Boston from ancient Peruvian cemeteries on the Bay of Chacota, one is the body of a female wrapped in parti -coloured garments of fine texture, and marked on the outer woollen wrappings with the impress of a human hand. The same impress of the red hand is common on Peruvian mummies. The hand or the thumb as a signet possesses a specific individuality. The lines on the surface of the thumb, as also on the finger-tips, form a definite pattern; and there is some reason for believing that it is perpetuated, with slight modifications, as an element of heredity. But apart from this, the individual hand is replete with character when carefully studied; and the impress of the native hand on dress and buildings attracted the notice of Stephens in his exploration of the antiquities of Central America. The skulls and complete mummies recovered from Peruvian tombs show them to per- tain to a small race ; and the impress of the little hand made on the mummies with red pigment LEFT-nANDEDNESS CHAP. II recalls the mano-colorado described by Stephens as a common feature amid the ruins of Uxmall : the impression of a living hand, but so small that it was completely hid under that of the traveller or his companion. It afterward i stared them in the face, as he says, on all the iuined buiklings of the country; and on visiting a nameless ruin beyond Sabachtsch^, in Yucatan, Stephens remarks : " On the walls of the desolate edifice were prints of the mano-colorado, or red hand. Often as I saw this print, it never failed to interest me. It was the stamp of the living hand. It always brought me nearer to the builders of these cities ; and at times, amid stillness, desolation, and ruin, it seemed as if from behind the curtain that concealed them from view was extended the hand of greeting. The Indians said it was the hand of the master of the building." CHAPTER III THE WILLING HAND The human hand is not only the symbol of the intelligent artificer, " the hand of the master," the sign and epitome of the lord and ruler; it is the instrument of the will alike for good and evil deeds. The idea of it as the active participator in every act embodies itself in all vocabularies. The imperial mandate, the lordly manumission, the skilled manu- facturer, the handy tool, the unhandy workman, the left-handed stroke, the handless drudge, with other equally familiar terms, all refer to the same ever- ready exponent of the will; so that we scarcely recognise the term as metaphorical when we speak of the " willing hand." The Divine appeal to the wrathful prophet of Nineveh is based on the claim for mercy on behalf of those who had not yet M LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. attained to the first stage of dexterity which pertains to childhood. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ? " To this same test of discernment poor Cassio appeals when, betrayed by the malignant craft of lago, he would fain persuade himself he is not enslaved by the intoxicating draught : " Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk. This is my right hand, and this is my left !" Only the infant or the drunkard, it is thus assumed, can fail to mark the dis- tinction ; and to select the true hand for all honour- able service. It is the sceptred hand ; the hand to be offered in pledge of amity; the one true wedding hand ; the hand of benediction, ordination, consecration ; the organ through which human will acts, whether by choice or by organic law. The attempt, therefore, to claim any independent rights or Invnourable status for the sinister hand seems an act of disloyalty, if not of sacrilege. But hand and will have co-operated from the beginning in good and in evil ; even as in that first erring deed, when Eve — Her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; ,„ THE WILLING HAND H Earth felt the wound ; ami Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe. The symbolic and resi'onaible hand accordingly figures ever}where. The drama of history and of fiction are alike full of it. Pilate vainly washes his hands as he asserts his innocence of the blood of the Just One. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand 1" is the agonised cry of Lady Macbeth. " This unworthy hand !" exclaims the martyr, Cranmer, as he makes it expiate the unfaithful act of signature, as though it were an independent actor, alone responsible for the deed. In touching tenderness the venerable poet Long- fellow thus symbolised the entrance on life's experiences — Oh, little hands that, weak or strong, ' Have still to rule or serve so long ; Have still so much to give op ask ; I, who so long with tongue and pen Have toiled among my fellow-men, Am weary thinking of your task. But childhood speedily reaches the stage when the privileged hand asserts its prerogative, and assumes its distinctive responsibility. For good or evil, not only does the right hand take precedence in the ■■! .■Hi LEFT-HANDEDNES3 CHAP. ■i'ffl established formulae of speech, but the left hand is in many languages the symbol or equivalent of im- purity, degradation, malice, and of evil doings. Looking then on right-handedness as a very noticeable human attribute, and one that enters largely into the daily acts, the exceptional manifestations of skill, and many habits and usages of life : the fact is indisputable that, whether we ascribe its prevalence solely to education, or assign its origin to some organic difference, the delicacy of the sense of touch, and the manipulative skill and mobility of the right hand, in the majority of cases, so far exceeds that of the left that a term borrowed from the former expresses the general idea of dexterity. That education has largely extended the preferential use of the right hand is undoubted. That it has even unduly tended to displace the left hand from the exercise of its manipulative function, I fully believe. But so far as appears, in the preference of one hand for the execution of many special opera- tions, the choice seems, by general consent, withouL any concerted action, to have been that of the right. The proofs of the antiquity of this consensus present themselves in ever -increasing amplitude, leading finally to an investigation of traces appar- Ill THE WILLING HAND 27 ently showing a prevalent dexterity among palaeolithic artificers. The paintings and intaglios of ancient Egypt, the sculptures of Nineveh and Babylon, and the later products of Hellenic and Etruscan art, when carefully studied, all yield illustrations of the subject. But the disclosures of archaeology in its later co-operation with the researches of the geologist have familiarised us with phases of human history that relegate the builders of the Birs Nimiud, and the sculptors of Nineveh or Thebes, to modern centuries. The handiwork of the palaeolithic cave- dwellers and the primitive drift-folk produce to us works of industry iind skill, fashioned when art was in its infancy, and metallurgy unknown. - .. r' .; It is unnecessary here to aim at even an approxi- mate estimate of the remoteness of that strange epoch when the cave-dwellers of the V^z^re and the northern slopes of the Pyrenees were the con- temporaries of the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, and the long-extinct carnivora of the caves ; and the fossil horse, with the musk-sheep, reindeer, and other Arctic fauna, were objects of the chase among the hunters of the Garonne. ' ^ The assignment of the primitive relics of human art to a period when the use of metais was unknown, 28 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. and man had to furnish his implements and weapons solely from such materials as wood, horn, bone, shell, stone, or flint, has naturally given a novel import- ance to this class of relics ; and we owe to the pen of Dr. John Evans not only an exhaustive review of the ancient implements and weapons of Great Britain, but also, incidentally, of the world's Stone Age, in nearly all countries and periods. In that work, accordingly, some of the eai^i'«»t traces of man's handiwork, as the manipulator and tool-maker, are described. Of those the implements of the Eiver-drift Period are at once the rudest and most primitive in character. They occur in vast numbers among the rolled gravel of the ancient fresh water or river-drifts, of what has received from the included implements the name of the Palceolithic Period ; and if they are correctly assumed to represent ^he sole appliances of the man of the Drift Per , hey indicate a singularly rude stage. In realiiy, 1 .w- ever, the large, rude almond and tongue -shaped implements of flint are nearly imperishable ; while trimmed flakes, small daggers or arrow-heads, and other delicately fashioned flint implements, — as well as any made of more perishable materials, such as shell, wood, or bone, — must have been fractured in Ill THE WILLING HAND 29 the violence to which the rolled gravels were sub- jected, or would perish by natural decay. But the same period is no less definitely illus- trated by deposits sealed up through unnumbered centuries under the stalagmitic flooring of limestone caves, or in the deposits of river gravels and silt, filling in many of the caves with red earth and gravel embedding implements closely resembling those of the drift. The ossiferous deposits, more- over, found in some of the oldest caves of England, France, and Belgium, which have disclosed palseo- Mthic tools, include also remains of the mammoth, cave-bear, fossil-horse, hyaena, reindeer, and other animals either wholly extinct, or such as prove by their character the enormous climatic changes referred to. In so far, therefore, as they afford any indica- tion of the antiquity of man, they point to ages so remote that it is unnecessary to investigate the bearings of evidence suggestive of comparative degrees in time. Every new discovery does, in- deed, add to our means of determining a relative prehistoric chronology which for some aspects of the inquiry is replete with interest and value. But the subject is referred to now solely in its bearing on the subordinate yet significant question ( LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. Ill relative to the manipulation of the primitive tool- maker. Here then, if anywhere, we may hope to find some of the earKest evidences of dexterity, alike in its technical and its popular sense. The primitive Troglodytes of Europe have not only transmitted to us abundant evidence of their industry as tool- makers, but also remarkable illustrations of their imitative art, and of an aesthetic faculty developed into rare excellence under all the disadvantages of the cave-dweller fashioning his own artistic imple- ments in a palaeolithic age. In such a stage of social life man was uninfluenced by any necessity for concerted action, and so was free to follow inclination or instinct in the preference for either hand. CHAPTEE IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY AECHiEOLOGY has undertaken novel duties as the handmaid of history. With its aid we have acquired more definite ideas of the men of Western Europe in its pleistocene or quaternary epoch than we possess of the contemporaries of Greece and Eome in the centuries preceding the Christian era. The huge cave-bear, the cave-lion, with their more formidable congener, the sabre-toothed Madmirodus latidens, preyed on the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the reindeer, musk-sheep, and other fauna of a semi- arctic climate; and the men of that same epoch, while still ignorant of the very rudiments of metal- lurgy, fashioned for themselves sufficiently efifective weapons to contend successfully with the fiercest of the carnivora, and secure for their own use the I|)|9'> ItttlH H LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. spoils of the chase. Palseolithic man made his home in the deserted rock-shelters and caves of the hyaena and cave-bear ; and in spite of the privations of a rigorous climate, found leisure not only to fashion his ingenious tools, but to indulge a taste for art, alike in carving and in etching on ivory and stone, to an extent altogether remarkable when the whole attendant circumstances are duly estimated. Speci- mens of those primitive works of art, including ingenious carvings in bone and ivory, and lances, daggers of deers' horn, maces and batons carved in bone, and decorated in some cases with artistic skill, have been recovered from the cave-drift, or more securely sealed up in the cave-breccia. The evi- dences of skill are unmistakable. Within the last thirty years repeated discoveries of such ancient cave-dwellings, and the investigation of their con- tents, have familiarised us with the workmanship of their primitive artificers. The evidence which these ingenious products furnish in proof of the dexterity of the ancient cave-men, in the more comprehensive sense of that term, is universally recognised; but my attention was first directed to the possible clue which they might furnish to the pre^ralent use of one or other hand in that remote age, by what on IV PALJIOLITHIC DEXTERITY further investigation proved to be an error in the reproduction of the famous drawing of the mammoth on a plate of its own ivory, found in La Madelaine Cave, in the Valley of the Vdzere. In M. Louis Figuier's L'Homme Primitif, for example, which might be assumed as a reliable authority in reference to the illustrative examples of French palteolithic art, the La Madelaine Cave sketch is incorrectly reproduced as a left-hand drawing ; that is to say, the mammoth is looking to the right. This is a nearly unerring test of right or left -handedness. The skilled artist can, no doubt, execute a right or left profile at his will. But an unpremeditated profile- drawing, if done by a right-handed draftsman, will be represented looking to the left ; as, if it is the work of a left-handed draftsman, it will certainly look to the right . The drawings of those contemporaries of the mammoth and other extinct fauna of Europe have n.turally excited attention on various grounds. They furnish no uncertain evidence of the intellect- ual status of the men of that remote age who con- stituted the population of Southern France, and of neighbouring regions, under climatic conditions con- trasting as strangely with those of the sunny land n 34 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHA?. liiii of the vine and the olive, as did the contemporary fauna and flora with those of Guyenne or Gascony at the present day. Any evidence therefore of their mode of working derived from their carvings and drawings has a special bearing on an inquiry into the antiquity and assumed universality of an instinctive habit. The examples of primitive art are of varying degrees of merit. Some of them may be compared to the first efforts of an untutored youth; while others, such as the La !Madelaine mammoth and the grazing reindeer from Thayngen, show the practised hand of a skilled draftsman. Among the fanciful illustrations introduced by M. Louis Figuier in his L'Homme Primitif is a picture showing the arts of drawing and sculpture as practised during the reindeer epoch. Three men of fine physique, slightly clad in skins, stand or recline in easy attitudes, sketching or carving as a modern artist might do in the lighter hours of his practice. One stands and sketches a deer, with free hand, on a piece of slate, which rests against a ledge of rock as his easel Another, seated at his ease, traces a miniature device with, it may be, a pointed flint, on a slab of bone or ivory. The third is apparently carving or modelling IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 35 a deer or other quadruped. All are, as a matter of course, represented with the stylus, graver, or modelling tool in the right hand, the question of possible left-handedness not having occurred to the modern draftsman. All experience points to the conclusion that the primitive artificer habitually used one hand, whether the right or the left. Even when the naturally left-handed have acquired such facility in the use of the right hand, by persevering compliance with the usage of the majority in many customary practices of daily life, as to be practically ambidextrous, each hand is still employed by instinctive preference in certain definite acts ; as with all, the knift is habitually used in one hand and the fork in the other. The result never leads to an indiscriminate employment of either hand. The necessity for promptness of action in the constantly recurring operations of daily life is sufficient to superinduce the habitual employment of one or the other hand with no more conscious selection than in the choice of foot, when not under command of a drill sergeant. Indeed, the experience of many readers, whose training as volunteers has included that important branch of education styled " the goose LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. ' i\ step," must have convinced them that few questions are more perplexing to the novice than, " Which is the right foot, and which is the left ? " In football no player is in doubt as to the foot he shall use. In cricket there is no uncertainty as to the choice of hand for the bat. In digging the action is so certain, though unpremeditated, that in Ireland, and probably elsewhere, " the spade-foot " is a term in general use. It is not necessarily the right foot, but it is always the same. The unpremeditated action of hand or foot is uniform, as the reader will find by clasping his hands with the fingers interlaced, or inviting another to do so. It is no matter of chance which thumb shall be uppermost. But combined opera- tions involving close unity of action are rare in savage life ; and man in the hunter stage is little affected in his habits by social usage. Hence spontaneous left-handedness may be looked for more frequently in such a stage, and even in peasant life, than in cultured society ; though the occasions for its manifestation are more rare. Attention has already been directed to the test of the diverse direction in which a profile is most readily, and therefore most naturally, drawn if executed by the right or the left hand. In so far IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY as the drawings or etchings of the palseolithic age are available for the application of this test, the following data may be adduced :— The mammoth drawing from La Madelaine Cave ; the bison, imperfect, showing only the hind- quarters; and the ibex, on reindeer -antler, from Laugerie Basse ; the group of reindeers from the Dordogne, two walking and one lying on its back ; the cave -bear of the Pyrenees, from the cave of Massat, in the department of Ari^ge ; and another sketch representing a hunter stalking the Urus : may all be regarded as right-hand drawings. But the horses from La Madelaine, engraved on reindeer- antler, specially noticeable for their large heads; the horse, from Creswell Crags ; and, above all, the remarkably spirited drawing of the reindeer grazing, from Thayngen in the Kesserloch — a sketch, marked by incident, both in the action of the animal and its surroundings, suggestive of an actual study from nature, — all appear to be left-hand drawings. The number of examples thus far adduced is obviously too small to admit of any general con- clusions as to the relative use of the right or left hand being based on their evidence ; but so far as it goes, while it presents one striking example of a LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. left-handed drawing, it confirms the idea of the predominance of right-handedness at that remote stage in the history of European man. It confirms, moreover, the correctness of the distinction already made between the preferential use of either hand by the cultured and skilled workman, or the artist, and its employment among rude, unskilled labourers en- gaged in such toil as may be readily accomplished by either hand. That the use of the left hand is transmitted from parent to child, and so, like other peculiarities, is to some extent hereditary, is un- doubted. This has, therefore, to kept in view in drawing any comprehensive ded.-.xona from a few examples confined to two or three localities. It may be that the skilled draftsman of the V^z^re, or the gifted artist to whom we owe the Kesserloch drawing, belonged to a family, or possibly a tribe, among whom left-handedness prevailed to an un- usual extent; and so might be developed not only hereditarily but by imitation. But on the other hand, even among those palaeolithic draftsmen, there is a distinct preference for the right hand in the majority of cases; and this is just what was to be expected. The more the subject is studied it becomes manifest that education, with the stimulus IV PALAEOLITHIC DEXTERITY furnished by the necessities arising from all combined action, has much to do with a full development of right-handedness. The bias is unquestionably in that direction ; but with many it is not so active as to be beyond the reach of education, such as the habit and usage of companions would supply, to overcome it. But with a considerable number the preferential use of the right hand is prompted by a strong, if not unconquerable instinctive impulse. A smaller number are no less strongly impelled to the use of the left hand. In the rnder conditions of society each man is free to follow the natural bias ; and in the absence or rare occurrence of the need for combined action, either habit attracts little at- tention. But so soon as co-operation begins to exercise its restraining and constraining influences, a very slight bias, due probably to individual organic structure, will suffice to determine the preference for one hand over the other, and so to originate the prevalent law of dexterity. The results shown by the ancient drawings of Europe's cave-men perfectly accord with this. In that remote dawn every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Some handled their tools and drew with the left hand ; a larger number used the right hand; but as yet no 40 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. rule pi ^vailed. In this, as in certain other respects, the arts and habits of that period belong to a chapter in the infancy of the race, when the law of dexterity, as well as other laws begot by habit, convenience, or mere prescriptive conventionality, had not yet found their place in that unwritten code to which a prompter obedience is rendered than to the most absolute of royal or imperial decrees. But we are not limited to the comparatively rare and exceptional examples of primitive dexterity which the works of the palaeolithic carver and etcher supply for illustrations of the special habit now under consideration. The graceful proportions and delicate manipulation of many of the chipped im- plements of flint have, not unnaturally, excite d both admiration and wonder, in view of the very limited resources of the worker in flint. ,. But the process of the ancient arrow-maker is no lost art. It has been found in u^3 among many barbarous races; and is still practised b} some of tlie American Indian tribes, to whom the art has doubtless been transmitted through successive generations from remotest times. The modes of manufacture vary somewhat among different tribes ; but they have been repeatedly witnessed and de- M^^MMMma IV rAL^OLITHIC DEXTERITY H scribed by explorers who have watched the native arrow-maker at work ; and his operations no longer present the diflSculties which were long supposed to beset this "lost art" of prehistoric times. Among the rarer primitive implements are hammer- stones, oblong or rounded in shape, generally with cavities worked in two faces, so as to admit of their being conveniently held between the finger and tliumb. Implements of this class have been re- peatedly recovered from the French caves. An interesting example occurred among the objects embedded in the red cave -earth of Kents's Hole, Devonshire ; and others of different periods, usually quartzite pebbles or nodules of flint, have been found in many localities. Some of them were probably used in breaking the larger bones to extract the marrow, but the battered edges of others show their contact with harder material Similar hammer-stones occur in the Danish peat-mosses, in the Swiss lake-dwellings, in sepulchral deposits, and are also included among the implements of modern savage art. They vary also in size, and were, no doubt, applied to diverse purposes. The mode of fashioning the large, tongue-shaped implements and rude stone hatchets, which are ._ ,.■;*«:«, v^l m l m LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. Ill among the most characteristic drift implements, it can scarcely be doubted, was by blows of a stone or flint hammer; as was obviously the case with large unfinished flint or horn -stone implements recovered by me from some of the numerous pits of the Flint Kidge, a siliceous deposit of the Carboniferous Age which extends through the State of Ohio, from Newark to New Lexington. At various points along the ridge funnel-shaped pits occur, varying from four or five to fifteen feet deep ; and similar traces of ancient mining may be seen in other localities, as at Leavenworth, about three hundred miles below Cincinnati, where the gray flint or chert abounds, of which large imple- ments are chiefly made. The sloping sides of the pits are in many cases covered with the fractured flints, some of them partially shaped as if for manufacture. The work in the quarry was, no doubt, the mere rough fashioning of the flint by the tool-makers, with a view to facility of transport, in many cases, to distant localities. But the finer manipulation, by means of which the carefully- finished arrow-heads, knives, lances, hoes, drills, scrapers, etc., were manufactured, was reserved for leisurely and patient skill Longfellow, in his IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 48 Indian epic, represents the Dacotah arrow -maker busy plying his craft. It was no doubt pursued by specially skilled workmen; for considerable dexterity is needed in striking the flakes from the flint core, and fashioning them into the nicely- finished edged tools and weapons to be seen in many museums. The choice of material is by no means limited to flint. At the doorway of his wigwam Sat the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Making arrow-heads of jasper, « Arrow-heads of chalcedony. Beautifully-finished arrow-heads and other smaller implements, fashioned of jasper, chalcedony, white quartz, and rock-crystal, are among the prized relics of many collections. The diversity of fracture in such materials must have taxed the skill of the expert workman, familiar chiefly with the regular cleavage of the obsidian, chert, or flint. But it is now known that the more delicate operations in the finishing of the flint implements were done by means of pressure with a horn or bone arrow-flaker ; and not by a succession of blows with a chisel or hammer. The process has been repeatedly described •w^ U LEFT-HANDEDNES3 CHAP. by eye-witnesses. Dr. Evans quotes more than one account of methods pursued among the Eskimo, the native Mexicans, and the Shasta Indians of California. Another, and in some respects more minute account of the process, as it is in use by the Wintoon Indians, is furnished by Mr. B. B. Redding, in the Amei^an Naturalist, from his own personal observation. The material, as among the Shasta Indians, was obsidian ; but the process is equally applicable to flint, the cleavage of which is nearly similar. The artificer was Consolulu, the aged chief of the Wintoon Indians. His implements consisted of a deer-horn prong split lengthwise, four inches long and half an inch thick, with the semicircular end at right angles ; two deer -horn prongs, one smaller than the other, with the ends ground down nearly to the shape of a square sharp-pointed file; and a piece of well-tanned buckskin, thick, soft, and pliable. Laying, as we are told, a lump of obsidian, about a pound in weight, in the palm of the left hand, he placed between the first and second fingers of the same hand the semi -cylindrical deer -horn implement, so that the straight side of one of the ends rested about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the block of obsidian. With a small water-worn IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 46 stone in his right hand, he struck the other end of the prong, and a flake of ohsidian was severed, well adapted for the arrow-head. On the buckskin, in the palm of his left hand, he laid the obsidian flake, which he held in place by the first three fingers of that hand, and then took such a position on the ground that the left elbow could rest on the left knee and obtain a firm support. Holding in his right hand the larger of the two pointed prongs, and resting his thumb on the side of his left hand to serve as a fulcrum, he brought the point of the prong about one-eighth of an inch within the edge of the flake; and then, exerting a firm downward pressure, fragment after fragment was broken ofT until the edge of the arrow was made straight. As all the chips came off the lower edge, the cutting edge was not yet in the centre of the side. But the Wintoon arrow -maker rubbed the side of the prong repeatedly over the sharp edge, turned over the flake, and, resuming the chipping as before, brought the cutting edge to the centre. In a similar manner, the other side and the concave base of the arrow-head were finished. The formation of indentations in the sides near the base for the retention of the tendons to bind the arrow-head II 46 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. securely to the shaft, apparently the most difficult process, was in reality the easiest. The point of the arrow -head was held between the thumb and finger of the left hand, while the base rested on the buckskin cushion in the palm. The point of the smaller deer-horn prong, not exceeding one-sixteenth of an inch square, was brought to bear on the part of the side where the Indian arrow-maker considered the notch should be. A sawing motion made the chips fly to right and left, and in less than a minute it was cut to the necessary depth. The other side was then completed in like manner. The entire process was accomplished, and the arrow-head finished, in about forty minutes. This account of the process of the Wintooii arrow-maker refers, it will be seen, with a marked though probably undesigned emphasis, to the use of the right hand in all his active manipulations. Its minute details are in other respects full of interest from the light we may assume them ^o throw on the method pursued by the primitive implement makers of the earliest Stone Age. Dr. Evans describes and figures a class of flint tools recovered from time to time, the edges of which, blunted and worn at both ends, suggest to his IV PALAEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 47 experienced eye their probable use for chipping out arrow-heads and other small implements of flint, somewhat in the fashion detailed above, with the tool of deer's horn. To those accordingly he applies the name of flaking tools, or fabricatoi's. But whether fashioned by means of flint or horn fabricator, it is to be notad that the material to be operated upon has to be held in one hand, while the tool is dexterously manipulated with the other. Signor Craveri, whose long residence in Mexico gave him very favoTirable opportunities for observing the process of the native workers in obsidian, remarks that, when the Indians " wish to make an arrow or other instrument of a splinter of obsidian, they take the piece in the left hand, and hold grasped in the other a small goat's horn. They set this piece of obfjidian upon the horn, and dexterously pressing it against the point of it, while they give the horn a gentle movement from right to left, and up and down, they disengage from it frequent chips ; and in this way obtain the desired form." ^ Again, in an account communicated to Sir Charles Lyell by Mr. Cabot, of the mode of procedure of the Shasta Indian arrow-makers, after describing the detach- ^ Translated from Gastaldi. See Evans's Stone Implements, p. 36. M LEFT-HANDEDNES3 CHAP. ment of a piece from the obsidian pebble with the help of an agate chisel, he thus proceeds : " Holding the piece against the anvil with thumb and finger of his left hand, he commenced a series of blows, every one of which chipped off fragments of the brittle substance." The patient artificer worked up- wards of an hour before he succeeded in producing a perfect arrow-head. His ingenious skill excited the admiration of the spectator, who adds the state- ment that among the Indians of California arrow- making is a distinct profession, in which few attain excellence. The point noticeable here in reference to the accounts given by the various observers is the uniform assumption of right-handedness. Mr. Redding, Signer Craveri, and Mr. Cabot not only agree in describing the block of obsidian as held in the left hand, while the tools are employed in the right hand to fashion it into shape ; but the whole language, especially in the description given by Signer Craveri, assumes right-handedness as not only the normal, but the invariable characteristic of the worker in stone. In reality, however, an ingenious investigator, Mr. F. H. Cushing of the Smithsonian Institution, while engaged in a series IV PALiEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 49 of tentative experiments to determine the process of working in flint and obsidian, liad his attention accidentally called to the fact that the primitive implements of the Stone Age perpetuate for us a record of the use of one or the other hand in their manufacture. "With the instinctive zeal of youthful enthusiasm Mr. Gushing, while still a boy on his father's farm in Western New York, carried out a systematic series of flint workings with a view to ascertain for himself the process by which the ancient arrow-makers fashioned the flint implements that then excited his interest. After repeated failures in his attempts to chip the flint into the desired shape by striking off fragments with a stone hammer, he accidentally discovered that small flakes coiild be detached from the flint core with great certainty and precision by pressure with a pointed rod of bone or horn ; and, as I have recently learned from him, the instrument employed by him in those experiments was the same as that which Dr. John Evans informs me he accidentally hit upon in his earliest successful efforts at flint-arrow making, viz. a tooth-brush handle. In thus employing a bone or horn flaker, the sharp edge of the flake cuts shghtly into the bone; and when the latter is liii ^ 60 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. IV iillliUai; twisted suddenly upward, a small scale flies off at the point of pressure in a direction which can be foreseen and controlled. With this discovery the essential process of arrow-making had been mastered. Spear and arrow-heads could be flaked with the most delicate precision, with no such liability to fracture as leads to constant failure in any attempt to chip even the larger and ruder spear or axe-heads into shape. The hammer-stone only sufi&ces for the earlier processes, including the detachment of the flake from the rough flint nodule, and trimming it roughly into the required form, preparatory to the delicate manipulation of edging, pointing, and notch- ing the arrow-head. The thinning of the flint-blade is effected by detaching long thin scales or flakes from the surface by using the flaker like a chisel and striking it a succession of blows with a hammer- stone. The marks of this delicate surface -flaking are abundantly manifest on the highly -finished Danish knives, daggers, and large spear-heads, as well as upon most other flint implements of Europe's Neolithic Age. The large spear and tongue-shaped implements of the drift are, on the contrary, rudely chipped, evidently by the blows of a hammer-stone ; although some of the more delicately fashioned drift IV PALAEOLITHIC DEXTERITY •1 implements seem to indicate that the use of the flint or bone flaker was not unknown to the men of the Palaeolithic Age. But the chipping-stone or hammer was in constant use at the later period ; and the small hammer-stone, with indentations on its sides for the finger and thumb, and its rounded edges marked with the evidence of long use in chipping the flint nodules into the desired forms, abounds both in Europe and America, wherever the arrow-maker has carried on his primitive art. The implements in use varied with the available material. A T-shaped wooden flaker sufficed for the Aztecs in shaping the easily -worked obsidian. The jasper, chalcedony, and quartz, in like manner, yield readily to the pressure of a slender flaker of horn ; whereas Mr. Gushing notes that the "tough horn-stone of Western Arctic America could not be flaked by pressure in the hand, but must be rested against some solid substance, and flaked by means of an instrument, the handle of which fitted the palm like that of an umbrella, enabling the operator to exert a pressure against the substance to be chipped nearly equal to the weight of the body." One result of Mr. Cushing's experiments in arrow-making was to satisfy him that the greatest difficulty was to ■< 62 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAr. make long narrow surface-flakes. Hence, contrary to all preconceived ideas, it is easier to form the much-prized, delicately-finished small arrow-head, with barbs and stem, than larger and seemingly ruder implements which involve much surface- flaking. It is interesting to learn of the recovery of this lost art of the ancient arrow-makers by a series of tentative experiments independently pursued by different observers. Before Mr. Cushing's attention had been directed to any of the descriptions of the process of modern flint- workers, now familiar to us, he aimed at placing himself in the same condition as the primitive manufacturer of Europe's Stone Age, or of the ancient Mound Builders of North America, "avoid of metallic tools, and with the flint, obsidian, jasper, or hornstone, as the most available material out of which to fashion nearly all needful implements. He set to work accordingly with no other appliances than such sticks and variously shaped stones as could be found on the banks of the streams where he sought his materials. The results realise to us, in a highly interesting way, the earliest stages in the training of the self- taught workman of the Paleeolithir Age. After IV PAL-ZEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 53 making various impleineuts akin to the most rudely fashioned examples from the river-drift or the old flint pits, by means of chipping one flint or stone with another, he satisfied himself that no amount of chipping, however carefully practised, would produce surfaces like the best of those which he was trying to imitate. He accordingly assumed that there must be some other process unknown to him. By chance he tried pressure with the point of a stick, instead of chipping with a stone, and the mystery was solved. He had hit on nearly the same method already described as in use by Aztecs, Eskimos, and Eed Indians ; and found that he could fashion the fractured flint or obsidian into nearly any shape that he desired. As has been already noted, Mr. Gushing, like Dr. Evans, resorted subsequently to the easily available tool furnished by the handle of a tooth-brush. Having thus mastered the secret of the old flint-workers, he succeeded before long in the manufacture of well-finished arrows, spear- heads, and daggers of flint, closely resembling the products of the primitive workmen both of the Old and the New World. Thus far the results accord with other investiga- tions; but in the course of his operations Mr. i ii 54 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. Gushing also noted this fact, that the grooves pro- duced by the flaking of the flint or obsidian all turned in one direction. This proved to be due to the constant use of his right hand. When the direction of pressure by the bone or stick was reversed, the result was apparent in the opposite direction of the grooves. So far as his observations then extended, he occasionally found an arrow-head or other primitive stone implement with the flake grooves running from left to right, showing, as he b(3lieved, the manipulation of a left-handed workman ; but, from the rarity of their occurrence, it might be concluded that, as a rule, prehistoric man was right- handed. When Mr. Gushing reported the results of those investigations into the arts of the Stoue Age, at a meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington in May 1879, Professor Mason con- firmed from his own observation the occurrence of flint implements indicating by the reversed direction of the bevelling that they were produced by left- handed workmen. Mr. Gushing further notes that " arrow-making is accompanied by great fatigue and profuse perspiration. It has a prostrating effect upon the nervous system, which shows itself again in the direction of fracture. The first fruits of the IV PALAEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 6S workman's labour, while still fresli and vigorous, can be distinguished from the implements produced after he had become exhausted at his task ; and it is thus noteworthy that on an unimpressible sub- stance like flint even the moods and passions of long-forgotten centuries may be found thus traced and recorded." In an ingenious brochure by Mr. Charles Eeade, styled " The Coming Man,*' specially aiming at the development in the rising generation of the use of the left hand, so that the man of the future shall be ambidextrous or " either-handed," he remarks : " There certainly is amongst mankind a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is by nature as either-handed as an ape ; and that custom should follow nature. The majority believe the left arm and hand inferior to the right in three tilings : power, dexterity, and dignity. Nor is this notion either old-fashioned or new-fangled. It is many thousand years old ; and comes down by unbroken descent to the present day." The writer then goes on to affirm : '^ It has never existed amongst rank barbarians ; it in not indicated in the genuine flint instruments; but only in those which modern dexterity plants in old strata, to delight and defraud ijfilij;'' 56 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. autiquarians ; and the few primitive barbarians that now remain, living relics of the Stone Age, use both arms indifferently." The conclusions here assumed as established by evidence derived from the study of " the genuine flint instruments " imply, I presume, that they do embody indications of right and left- hand manipulation in nearly equal proportions; whereas the forgeries of the modern " Flint Jack " all betray evidence of right-handed manufacture, and of consequent modernness. This, however, must have been set forth as a mere surmise ; for, as now appears, it is in conflict with the results of careful investigations directed to the products of the primitive flint workers. The opinion adopted by Mr. Gushing, after repeated observation and tenta- tive experiment, is that primitive man was, as a rule, right-handed. The evidence adduced is in- sufficient for an absolute determination of the question ; but any strongly-marked examples of the left-handed workman's art thus far observed among palseolithic flint implements appear to be exceptional. No higher authority than Dr. John Evans can be appealed to in reference to the manipulations of the primitive flint-worker, and, in writing to me on the subject, he remarks : " I think that there is some IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY w evidence of the flint -workers of old having been right-handed ; the particular twist, both in some palaeolithic implements, as in one in my own pos- session from Hoxne, and in some American rifled arrow-heads, being due to the manner of chipping, and being most in accordance with their being held in the left hand and chipped with the right." In the detailed description, given in his Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, of the example from Hoxne above referred to, Dr. John Evans remarks : " It presents the peculiarity, which is by no means uncommon in ovate implements, of having the aide edges not in one plane, but forming a sort of ogee curve. In this instance the blade is twisted to such an extent that a line drawn through the two edges near the point is at an angle of at least 45° to a line through the edges at the broadest part of the implement. I think," he adds, " that this twist- ing uf the edges was not in this case intended to serve ay particular purpose, but was rather the accideni 1 result of the method pursued in chipping the flint into its present form."^ A similar curva- ture is seen in a long -pointed implement from Eeculver, in the collection of Mr. J. Brent, F.S.A., ^ Ancient Stone Implements, p. 520. 08 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. and again in another large example of this class, from Hoxne in Suffolk, presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London upwards of eighty years ago. This, as Dr. Evans notes, exhibits the same peculiarity of the twisting of the edges so markedly, and indeed so closely resembles the specimen in his own collec- tion, that they might have been made by the same hand. Of another example, from Santon Downham, near Hetford, Suffolk, almond-shaped, and with dendritic markings in evidence of its palaeolithic date. Dr. Evans remarks : " It is fairly symmetrical in contour with an edge all round, which is some- what blunted at the base. This edge, however, is not in one plane, but considerably curved, so that when seen sideways it forms an ogee curve ;" and he adds : " I have other implements of the same, and of more pointed forms, with similarly curved edges, both from France and other parts of England, but whether this curvature was intentional it is impossible to say. In some cases it is so marked that it can hardly be the result of accident ; aud the curve is, so far as I have observed, almost without exception 8, and not S. If not intentional, the form may be the result of all the blows by which the implement was finally chipped out having IV .,((•' J •:-'*^-.< TV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 59 been given on the one face on one side, and on the opposite on the other." ^ In other words, the implement-maker worked throughout with the flaker in the same hand ; and that hand, with very rare exceptions, appears to have been the right hand. The evidence thus far adduced manifestly points to the predominance of right-handed men among the palaeolithic flint- workers. For if the flint -arrow maker, working apart, and with no motive, therefore, suggested by the necessity of accommodating himself to a neighbouring workman, has habitually used the right hand from remote palaeolithic times, it only remains to determine the origin of a practice too nearly invariable to have been the result of accident. This, however, has long eluded research ; or thus far, at least, has been ascribed to very different causes. But to any who regards the special inquiry now under review as one worthy of further con- sideration, the class of implements referred to offers a trustworthy source of evidence whereby to arrive at a relative estimate of the prevalent use of one or the other hand among uncultured races of men, alike in ancient and modem times. -"--— - Dr. Evans has figured and described what he 1 Ancient Stone Implements, p. 501. 60 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. J: I believes to have been the flaking tools or fabricators in earliest use among the flint-workers for chipping out arrow-heads and other small implements. They are fashioned of the same material ; and some of them are carefully wrought into a form best adapted for being held in the hand of the workman. Speci- mens of the bone arrow-flakers in use by the Eskimo workers in flint are also familiar to us. Difierent forms of those instruments are engraved among the illustrations to The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain, from specimens in the Blackmore Museum and the Christy Collection ;^ and Dr. Evans describes the mode of using them as witnessed by Six Edward Belcher among the Eskimo of Cape Lisburne, but without reference to the point now alluded to. Dr. John Eae, who, like myself, is inveterately left-handed, informs me that, without having taken particular notice of Indian or Eskimo practice in the use of one or the other hand, he observed that some among them were markedly ambidextrous. But, he adds, "from a curious story told me by an Eskimo about a bear throwing a large piece of ice at the head of a wsflrus, and telling me as a noteworthy fact that he threw it ^ Ancient Stone Implements, figs. 8, 9, 10. IV PALEOLITHIC DEXTERITY 61 with the left forepaw, as if it were something un- usual, it would seem to indicate that left-handedness was not very common among the Eskimos." It shows, at any rate, that the Eskimo noted the use of the left paw as something diverse from the normal practice. But if the deductions based on the experimental working in flint are well founded, the test supplied by the direction of the flaking grooves of obsidian, chert, or flint implements will be equally available for determining the prevalent use of one or other hand by the Eskimo and other modern savage races, as among those of the Palaeo- Hthic and Neolithic Periods. ^:"!l^ CHAPTER V THE DISHONOURED HAND An interesting discovery made in recent years in the course of some researches into the traces of the neolithic flint-workers of Norfolk invites attention from the evidence it has been thought to furnish of the traces of a left-handed workman of that remote era. The Rev. William Greenwell carried out a series of explorations of a number of flint -pits, known as Grimes's Graves, near Brandon, in Norfolk ; and in a communication to the Ethnological Society of London on the subject, he states that in clearing out one of the primitive subterranean galleries ex- cavated in the chalk by the British workmen of '.;he Neolithic Age, in order to procure flint rodules in a condition best adapted for their purpose, it was ing in CUAP. V THE DISHONOURED HAND 63 found that, while the pits were still being worked, the roof of the gallery had given way and blocked up its whole width. The removal of this obstruc- tion disclosed three recesses extending beyond the face of the chalk, at the end of the gallery, which had been excavated by the ancient miners in pro- curing the flint. In front of two of these recesses thus hollowed out lay two picks corresponding to others found in various parts of the shafts and galleries, made from the antlers of the red deer. But Canon Greenwell noted that, while the handle of each was laid towards the mouth of the gallery, the tines which formed the blades of the picks pointed towards each other, showing, as he con- ceived, that in all probability they had been used respectively by a right and a left-handed man. The day's work over, the men had laid down their tools, ready for the next day's work: meanwhile the roof had fallen in, and the picks were left there undisturbed through all the intervening centuries, till the reopening of the gallery in our own day. The chronicles of the neolithic miners of Nor- folk, as of the greatly more ancient flint-workers of the drift, or the draftsmen of the Dordogne, are recorded for us in very definite characters, more 64 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. trustworthy, but unfortunately as m<\igre as other early chronicles. But when we come within the range of written records, or analyse the evidence that language supplies among unlettered races, a flood of light is thrown on the subject of a discriminating choice in use of one or the other hand. The evi- dence derived from this source leaves no room for doubt that the preferential choice is no mere habit ; but that everywhere, among barbaroii ^ and civilised races alike, one specific hand has been assigned for all actions "• uiring either unusual force or special delicacy. Even among races in the rudest condition of savage life, such as the Australians and the Pacific Islanders, terms for "right," the "right hand," or approximate expressions show that the distinction is no product of civilisation. In the Kamilarai dialect of the Australians bordering on Hunter's Kiver and Lake Maquaria matara signifies "hand," but they have the terms turovn, right, on the right hand, and ngorangdn, on the left hand. In the Wiraturai dialect of the Wellington Valley the same ideas are expressed by the words humal(/dl and miraga, dextrorsum and sinistrorsum. The idea lying at the root of our own decimal THE DISHONOURED HAND 65 notation, which has long since been noted by Lepsius, Donaldson, and other philologists, as the source of names of Greek and Latin numerals, is no less discernible in the rudest savage tongues. Among the South Australians the simple names for numerals are limited to two, viz. ryup, one, and 'politit two ; the two together express " three " ; poHti-poUH, four ; and then " five " is indicated by the term ryup-murnangin, i.e. one hand ; ten by politi-mumangin, ie. two hands. The same idea is apparent in the dialects of Hawaii, Earatonga, Viti, and New Zealand, in the use of the one term : lima, riina, linga, ringa, etc., for hand and for the number five. Fulu and its equ.valents stand for " ten," apparently irom the root fu, whole, altogether ; while the word tau, which in the Hawaiian signifies " ready," in the Tahitian " right, proper," and in the New Zealand, "expert, dexterous," is the common Polynesian term for the right hand. In the Vitian language, as spoken in various dialects throughout the Viti or Fiji Islands, the distinction is still more explicitly indicated. There is first the common term linga, the hand, or arm ; then the ceremonial term daka, employed exclusively in speaking of that of a chief, but which, it may be presumed, also F i m LEFT-HANDEDNES8 CIIAI'. • a^^ m expresses the riglit hand ; as, while there is no other word for it, a distinct tovm sema is the left hand. The root se is found not only in the Viti, but also in the Samoa, Tonga, Mangariva, and New Zealand dialects, signifying " to err, to mistake, to wander " ; semo, unstable, unfixed ; while there is the word maiau, right, dexter, clearly proving the recognition of the distinction. In the case of the Viti or Fijian, this is the more noticeable, as there appears to be some reason for believing that left-handedness is exceptionally prevalent among the natives of the Fiji Islands. In 1876 a correspondent of the TiTMs communicated a series of letters to that journal, in which he embodied anthropological notes on the Fijians, obtained both from his own observa- tions during repeated visits to the Islands, and from conversation with English, American, and German settlers, at the port of call, and on the route between San Francisco and the Australian colonies. "The Fijians," he says, "are quite equal in stature to white men ; they are better developed relatively in the chest and arms than in the lower limbs ; they are excellent swimmers, and, if trained, are good rowers. Left-handed men are more common among them than among white people; three were pointed V THE DISHONOURED HAND out in one little village near the anchorage." Yet here, as elsewliere, it is exceptional. Vague state- ments from time to time appear, affirming a preva- lence of left -handedness among certain barbarous races. A writer in the Medical Record in 188G says : " No purely left-handed race has ever been discovered, although there seems to be a difference in difi'erent tribes. Seventy per cent of the inhabit- ants of the Punjab use the left hand by preference ; and the greater number of the Hottentots and Bush- men of South Africa also use the left hand in pre- ference to the right." But such statements, to be of any value, must be based on carefully accumu- lated evidence, such as is scarcely accessible in rela- tion to nomad savage tribes. Such comprehensive generalisations generally prove to have no better foundation than the exceptional and chance obser- vations of a traveller. It is otherwise when the evidence is derived from language, or from the observation of traders or missionaries long resident among the people. Throughout the widely scattered islands of the Pacific the recognition of native right-handedness as the normal usage is confirmed alike by trustworthy witnesses and by the definite evidence of language. ■:*'| 68 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. The Samoan word lima, hand, also signifying " five/' and the terras lima maira, right hand, and lima woat, left hand, are used as the equivalents of our own mode of expression. But also the left hand is lima tau-anga-vale, literally, the hand that takes hold foolishly. In the case of the Samoans, it may be added, as well as among the natives of New Britain and other of the Pacific islands, the favoured hand corresponds with our right hand. My informant, the Eev. George Brown, for fourteen years a missionary in Polynesia, stales that the distinction of right and left hand is as marked as among Europeans ; and lef t-handedness is altogether exceptional. In the Terawan language, which is spoken throughout the group of islands on the equator called the KingsmiU Archipelago, the terms atai or edai, right, dexter, (entirely distinct from rapa, good, right,) and maan, left, sinister, are applied to hai, or pai, the hand, to denote the difference, e.g. te bai maan, the left hand, literally, the ''dirty hand," that which is not used in eating. The languages of the American continent furnish similar evidence of the recognition of the dis- tinction among its hunter-tribes. In the Ohippeway the word for "my right hand" is ne-keche-neenj, aimmimsmi "■■■■nHn ^'HE DISHONOURED HAND 60 ne being the prenominal prefix, literally, " my great hand." "My left hand" is ne-nuh-munje-neenj-ne. Numunj is the same root as appears in nuh-munj-e- doon, " I do not know ; " and the idea obviously is "the uncertain or unreliable hand." Again, in the Mohawk language, " the right hand " is ex~ prestjed by the term ji-ke-ive-yen-den-dah-hon, from ke-we-yen-deh, literally, "I know how." Ji is a particle conveying the idea of side, and the termination dah-kon has the meaning of " being accustomed to." It is, therefore, the limb accus- tomed to act promptly, the dexterous organ, Ske- ne-kwa-dih, the left hand, literally means " the other side." Analogous terms are found alike in the languages of civilised and barbarous races, expressing the same inforiorit^ of one hand in relation to the other which is indicated in the classical sinistra as the subordinate of the dextra manus. The honourable significance of the right hand receives special pro- minence in the most sacred allusions of the Hebrew scriptures ; and in mediseval art the right hand in benediction is a frequent symbol of the First Person of the Trinity. In the Anglo-Saxon version of the New Testament the equivalent terms appear as 70 LEFT-HANDEDNES3 CHAP. m stvythre and luynstre, as in Matthew vi. 3 : " Sothlice thonne thu thinne aelmessan do, nyte thin wynstre hwaet do thin swythre ; " " V/"hen thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." Again the distinction appears in a subsequent passage thus : " And he geset tha seep on hys swithran healfe, and tha tyccenu on hys wynstran healfe" (Matthew xxv. 34). Here the derivation of swythre from swyth, strong, powerful, swythra, a strong one, a dexterous man, swythre, the stronger, the right hand, is obvious enough. It is also used as an adjective, as in Matthew v. 30: "And gif thin swythre hand the asv/ice, aceorf hig of ; " " And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off." The derivation of wynstre is less apparent, and can only be referred to its direct significance, se wynstra, the left. In the Greek we find the isolated dpia-repo^, dpLarepd, left, 17 dpLarepd, the left hand. What- ever etymology we adopt for this word, the depre- ciatory comparison between the left and the more favoured he^id, or right hand, is obvious enough in the a-Kai6<;, the left, the ill-omened, the unlucky; fior(ad\ayyo<;y " He ordered to draw up his century in squads of twenty-five, and post them in line to the left." And again. Anabasis, IV. iii. 2 9 : Tot? Be irap eavrw TrapriyyeCkev . . . dvaarpe- ylravTa^i eVl Bopv, k.t.X., "He ordered his own di\ision, turning to the right," etc. Egyptian paintings are older than tho earliest Greek vases, but they are less reliable ; for in the symmetrical arrangements of hierogl3rphic paintings the groups of figures are habitually reversed, right and left, looking toward a central line or point. Yet there also evidence may be found confirming the same idea. But we may once more turn aside from the physical to the intellectual aspect of available evidence, and find confirmation of a like kind in one VI THE PRIMITIVE ABACUS 79 [cal Lips eft, ere Ime the Ible of the earliest definite manifestations of cultured reason. Few tests of relative stages of civilisation are more trustworthy than that of the definite conception of high numbers. The prevalence of a decimal system of numerals among wideh severed nations, alike in ancient and modem times, has been universally ascribed to the simple pror^ss of count- ing with the aid of the fingers. Mr. Francis Galton, in his Narrative of an Eoffploration in Tropical A./rica, when describing the efforts of the Damaras at com- putation, states that the mental effort fails them beyond three. ''When they wish to express four, they take to their fingers, which are to them as for- midable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp and secure the fingers that are required for units." Turning to the line of evidence which this primitive method of computation suggests, some striking analogies reveal a recognition of ideas common to the savage and to the cultivated Greek and Eoman. Donaldson, in his New Cratylus, in seeking to trace the first ten numerals to their primitive roots in Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, and Latin, derives seven of them from the three primitive prenominal elements. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) 1.0 I.I fca|21 |2.5 L£. 12.0 us IL25 a 1.4 I in 1.6 Photographic Sciences Corporation 'i3 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14S80 (716) 872-4503 %<' <*'i» ^ V 5? ../W # W"^ ii ' ■ ^pB 80 LEFT- HANDEDNESS OHAP. But Jive, nine, and ten are referred by him directly to the same infantile source of decimal notation, suggested by the ten fingers, as has been recognised in similar operation among the Hawaiians, and the Maoris of New Zealand. " One would fancy, indeed, without any particular investigation of the subject, that the number five would have some connection with the word signiiying ' a hand,' and the number ten with a word denoting the right hand*; for in counting with our fingers we begin with the little finger of the left hand." Hence the familiar idea, as expressed in its simplest form, where Heaiod {Cv. 740) calls the hand irevro^ov, the five-branch ; and hence also ire^ird^co, primarily to count on five fingers. Bopp, adopting the same idea, considers the Sanskrit pan'-cha as formad of the copulative con- junction added to the neuter form of pa, one, and so signifying "and one." Benary explains it as an abbreviation of pdn'-i-cha, "and the hand" — the conjunction being equally recognisable in pan'-cha, irev-fe, and quinque. This, they assume, expressed the idea that the enumerator then began to count with the other hand; but Donaldson ingeniously suggests the simpler meaning, that after counting VI VI THE PRIMITIVE ABACUS 81 four the whole hand was opened and held up. To reckon by the hand was, accordingly, to make a rough computation, as in the Wasps of Aristo- phanes, where Bdelycleon bids his father, the dicast, " first of all calculate roughly, not by pebbles, but airb '^eipo^, wi^h the hand." The rektion ui Be^id to BcK-a and dextra, Be>c-a, decern, 8e/c-- ■■ Hebrew, when looking to the east, the west was thus behmd, the south on his right hand, and the north on his left. This determination of the righL and left in relation to the east is not peculiar to the Hebrews. Many nations appear to have designated the south in the same marner, as being on the right hand when looking to the east. Its origin may be traced with little hesitation to the associations with the most ancient and dignified forn.' of false worship, the paying divine honours to the Sun, as he rises in the east, as the Lord of Day. Thus we find in the Sanskrit daJcsMna, right hand, south ; puras, in front, eastward; apara, pagchima, behind, west; utiara, northern, to the left. The old Irish has, in like manner, deas or defs, on the right, southward ; oirthear, in front, east; jav, behind, west; tuatK Um^*-*' i' ^^^^» horn, thuaidh, left. An analogous practice \^\f^,' .■ The traces of a term of common origin for right (south) in so many of the Indo-European languages is interesting and suggestive, though the ultimate word is still open to question. How the equivalent terms run through the whole system may be seen from the following illustrations : Sanskrit, daJcshina (of. deccan) ; Zend, dashina ; Gothic, taihs-vo ; O.H. German, siMso ; Lithuanian, deszine ; Gaelic, dheas ; Erse, dess ideas) ; Latin, dexter ; Greek, B€^i6<;, etc. The immediate Sanskrit stem daJcsh means "to be right, or fitting " ; secondarily, " to be dexterous, clever." etc. This is evidently from a root dek, as the western languages show. It was usual at an earlier period to trace the whole to the root dik, to show, to point ; but this is now given up. Probably the Greek SeK-ofiai (he'XpfiaC), take, receive, preserves the original stem, with the idea primarily of " seizing, catching." This leads naturally to a comparison of 8a«T-u-Xo9, finger, and dig-i-ttcs, BoK-d-vrj, fork, etc. (see Curtius's Outlines of Greek Etymology). Eight-handed usages, and the ideas which they suggest, largely influence the ceremonial customs of many nations, affect their religious observances. mm, H LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. VII bear a significant part in the marriage rites, and are interwoven with the most familiar social usages. Among the ancient Greeks the rites of the social board required the passing of the wine from right to left, — or. at any rate, in one invariable direction, — as indicated by Homer in his description of the feast of the gods {Iliad, i. 597, OeoU ivBe^ia iraaiv olvo')(6et), where Hephaestus goes round and pours out the sweet nectar to the assembled gods. The direction pursued by the cupbearer would be determined by his bearing the flagon in his right hand, and so walking with his right side towards the guests. This is, indeed, a point of dispute among scholars. But it is not questioned that a uniform practice prevailed, dependent on the re- cognition of right and left-handedness ; and this is no less apparent among the Eomans than the Greeks. It is set forth in the most unmusical of Horace's hexameters : " lUe sinistrorsum, hie dextrorsum abit ; " and finds its precise elucidation from many independent sources, in the allusions of the poets, iu the works of sculptors, and in the decorations of fictile ware. -,„^; ,.,..,1-. -. .. CHAPTER VIII HANDWKITING of It is manifestly important to determine whether the term used by the Mnevite, the Assyrian, Greek, Eoman, and other ancient nations for the right hand was exclusively limited to the member of the body on what is now universally recognised as the right side ; or was applicable to either hand, implying no more than the one habitually and preferentially em- ployed. But the true right and left of the Hebrew and other ancient Semitic nations has a special significance, in view of the fact that, whilst the great class of Aryan languages, as well as the Etruscan y and others of indeterminate clasbification, appear, from a remote date, to have been written from left to right ; all the Semitic languages, except the Ethiopic, as well as those of other races that have derived ill I 98 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. ,5 / their written characters from the Arabian, — such as the Turks, Malays, and Persians, — are written from right to left. Habit has so largely modified our current handwriting, and adapted its characters to forms best suited for continuous and rapid execu- tion in the one direction, that the reversal of this at once suggests the idea of a left-handed people. But the assumption is suggested by a misinterpretation of the evidence. So long as each character was separately drawn, and when, moreover, they were pictorial cr ideographic, it was, in reality, more natural to begin at the right, or nearer side, of the papyrus or tablet, than to pass over to the left. The forms of all written characters are largely affected by their mode of use, as is abundantly illustrated in the transformation of the Egyptian ideographs in the later demotic writing. The forms of the old Semitic alphabet, like the Egyptian hiero- glyphics, are specially adapted to cutting on stone. The square Hebrew characters are of much later date; but they also, like the uncials of early Christian manuscripts, were executed singly, and therefore could be written as easily from right to left as in a reverse order. The oldest alphabets indicr>te a special adaptation for monumental inscrip- i-W^^'l ^' vin HANDWRITING dd Later tarly and It to [ibets Icrip- tion. The Eunic characters of northern Europe owe their peculiar form apparently to their being primarily cut on wood. When papyrus leaves were substituted for stone, a change was inevitable ; but the direction of the writing only becomes significant in reference to a current hand. The Greek fashion of loustrcyphedon, or alternating like the course of oxen in ploughing, illustrates the natural process of beginning at the side nearest to the hand ; nor did either this, or the still earlier mode of writing in columns, as with the ancient Egyptians, or the Chinese, present any impediment, so long as it was executed in detached characters. But so soon as the reed or quill, with the coloured pigment, began to supersede the chisel, the hieratic writing assumed a modified form ; and when it passed into the later demotic handwriting, with its seemingly arbitrary script, the same influences were brought into play which control the modern penman in the slope, direction, and force of his stroke. One important exception, however, still remained. Although, as in writing Greek, the tendency towards the adoption of tied letters was inevitable, yet to the last the enchorial or demotic writing was mainly executed in detached characters, and does not, therefore, con- 100 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OH A p. stitute a true current handwriting, such as in our own continuous penmanship leaves no room for doubt as to the hand by which it was executed. Any sufficiently ambidextrous penman, attempting to copy a piece of modem current writing with either hand, would determine beyond all question its right-handed execution. But no such certain result is found on applying the same test to the Egyptian demotic. I have tided it on two of the Louvre demotic MSS. and a portion of a Turin papyrus, and find that they can be copied with nearly equal dexterity with either hand. Some of the characters are more easily and naturally executed, without lifting the pen, with the left hand than the right. Others again, in the slope and the direction of the thickening of the stroke, suggest a right-handed execution ; but habit in the forming of the characters, as in writing Greek or Arabic, would speedily over- come any such difficulty either way. I feel assured that no habitually left-handed writer would find any difficulty in acquiring the unmodified demotic hand ; whereas no amount of dexterity of the penman com- pelled to resort to his left hand in executing ordinary current writing suffices to prevent such a modification in the slope, the stroke and the VIII HANDWRITING 101 formation of the characters, as clearly indicates the change. Attention has been recently called to this special aspect of the subject in a minutely detailed article in the Archivio Itadano per Ic Malatie Nerwse, of September 1890, by Dr. D'A^undo Guisoppe, of the University of Pisa. The inquiry was suggested to the risan professor by the peculiar case of a left-handed patient, thus stated by him : *' I was treating electric- ally a gentleman, thirty-three years of age, who had been affected for two years with difficulty in writing, and which proved to be a typical case of the spasm called writer's cramp. The fact to which I desire to draw attention is that the gentleman was left- handed, and had been so from his birth, so that he preferentially used the left hand except in writing, as he had learned to write with the right hand. He was a person of good intellect and superior culture ; and he had taught himself to sketch and paint with the left hand. Under the electric treat- ment he improved, but in view of the liability to relapse, I advised him to commence practising writing with the left hand ; more especially as he is left-handed. But he informed me that in the first attempts made by him he felt, in addition to the Jr. * lb I 102 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. difficulty ; tliat tliey produced painful sensations in the right arm, as if he were writing with it. Wish- ing to master the facts, I caused him to write in my presence ; and I observed that, instead of com- mencing from left to right, he automatically pro- ceeded from right to left. At my request, he began with the greatest readiness and rapidity to write some lines which I dictated to him. What struck me was the rapidity with which he wrote, the regu- larity of the writing, and the ease with which, with unruled paper, he went on writing from right to left. He assured me that he had never before made any attempt to write in that way ; and he was himself really surprised."^ :, / Dr. Guiseppe's attention being thus directed to this aspect of the subject, his next aim was to determine whether the phenomenon might not be physiological, and specially characteristic of left- handed persons; and he naturally reverted to the pathological evidence bearing on left-handed mani- festations. He points out that Buchwald, in three cases of aphasia, had found a very peculiar disturb- ance of written language, v^^hich consisted in the fact * Archivio Italiano, Milan, September 1390, "Su di alcune particolaritk della scrittura dei mancini," p. 298. VIII HANDWRITING 103 that the letters were written by the patient from right to left, with reverted slope. He accordingly made further research, with a special view to determine whether this peculiar manifestation was due to morbid causes. Unfortunately, although he states that the subjects of his observation included a con- siderable number of left-handed persons, the cases stated by him in detail are mainly those of the right-handed who, by reason of injury or loss of the right hand, had been compelled to cultivate the use of the other. Such cases, however, amount to no more than evidence of the extent to which the left hand may be educated, and so made to perform all the functions of the right hand. To one, indeed, familiar by practical experience with the exceptional facihties and the impediments of the left-handed, it is curious to observe the difficulty experienced by a, highly intelligent scientific student of the phenomena, to appreciate what seems to the ordinary left- handed man not only natural but inevitable. In the case of Dr. Guiseppe's original patient, he wrote reversely instinctively, and with ease, on the first attempt to use the unfamiliar pen in his left hand. Acquired left -handedness revealed itself, on the contrary, in the writer placing the paper obliquely ; 104 LEFT-HANDEDNES3 OUAP. or in other ways showing that, witli all the facility derived from long practice, it was the result of effort and a persevering contest with nature. Dr. Guiseppe accordingly adds in a summary of results : " In general, I have discovered that right-handed persons who became the subjects of disease affecting the right arm from their infancy were forced to learn to write with the left hand ; and they wrote from right to left with sufficient facility, varying the slope of the letters. Those, however, who had become affected with disease in the right arm in adult life, when they had already familiarly practised writing with the right hand, and in consequence of disease had been obliged to resort to the left hand, were less success- ful in writing with the reversed slope." ^ To the naturally left-handed person, especially when he has enjoyed the unrestrained use of the pencil in his facile hand, the reversed slope is the easiest, and the only natural one. But this is entirely traceable to the comparatively modern element of cursive writing. No such cause affected the graver, or the hieroglyphic depictor of ideo- graphs, even when reduced to their most arbitrary demotic forms, so long as they were executed singly. ^ Archivio Italiano, September 1890, p. 304. VIII IIANDWKlTINa 106 I So soon as the habitual uso of the papyrus, with the reed pen and coloured pigments, had developed any uniformity of us ^'e, the customary method of writing by the Egyptian appears to have accorded with that in use among the Hebrew and other Semitic races ; though examples do occur of true hieroglyphic papyri written from left to right. But the pictorial character of such writings furnishes another test. It is easier for a right-handed drafts- man to draw a profile with the face looking towards the left ; and the same influence might be antici- pated to affect the direction of the characters incised on the walls of temples and palaces. This has accordingly suggested an available clue to Egyptian right or left-handedness. But the evidence adduced from Egyptian monuments is liable to mislead. A writer in Nature (J. S., 14th April 1870) states as the result of a careful survey of the examples in the British Museum, tnat the hieroglyphic profiles there generally look to the right, and so suggest the work of a left-handed people. Other and more suggestive evidence from the monuments of Egypt points to the same con- clusion, but it is deceptive. The hieroglyphic sculptures of the Egyptians, like the cufic inscrip- •iiiii:.; lOS LEFT-HAKDEDNESS CHAP. m tions in Arabian architecture, are mainly decorative ; and are. arranged symmetrically for architectural effect. The same principle regulated their intro- duction on sarcophagi. Of this, examples in the British Museum furnish abundant illustration. On the great sarcophagus of Sebaksi, priest of Phtha, the profiles on the right and left column look towards the centre line ; and hence the element of right-handedness is subordinated to decorative requirements. If this is overlooked, the left-handed- ness ascribed above to the ancient Egyptians may seem to be settled beyond dispute by numerous rep^'esdntations both of gods and men, engaged in the actual process of vn-iting. Among the incidents introduced in the jft-repeated judgment scene of Osiris, — as on the Adytum of the Temple of Dayr el Medineh, of which I have a photograph, — Thoth, the Egyptian God of Letters, stands with the stylus in his left hand, and a papyrus or tablet in his right, and records concerning the deceased, in the presence of the divine judge, the results of the literal weigh- ing in the balance of the deeds done in the body. In other smaller representations of the same scene, Thoth is similarly introduced holding the stylus in his left hand. So also, in the decorations on the ^ VIII HANDWRITING 107 wall of the great chamber in the rock-temple of Abou Simbel, Rameses is represented slaying his enemies with a club, which is held in his left hand ; and the goddess Pasht is shown decapitating her prisoners with a scimitar also in the left hand. This evidence seems sufficiently direct and indisput- able to settle the question; yet further research leaves no doubt that it is illusory. Ample evidence to the contrary is to be found in ChampoUion's Monuments de VEgypte et de la Nuhie ; and is fully confirmed by Maxime du Camp's Photographic Pictures of Egypt, Nubia, etc., oy Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, and by other photographic and pictorial evidence. In a group, for example, photographed by Du Camp, from the exterior of the sanctuary of the palace of Karnac, where the Pharaoh is repre- sented crowned by the ibis and hawk-headed deities, Thoth and Horus, the hieroglyphics are cut on either side so as to look towards the central figure. The same arrangement is repeated in another group at Ipsamboul, engraved by Champollion, Monuments de VEgypiz (vol. i. PI. 5). Still more, where figures are intermingled, looking in opposite directions, — as chown in a photograph of the elaborately sculptured 108 LEFT-KANDEDNESS CHAP. posterior fa9ade of the Great Temple of Denderah, — the accompanying hieroglyphics, graven in column, vary in direction in accordance with that of the figure to which they refer. Columns of hieroglyphics repeatedly occur, separating the seated deity an'^ a worshipper standing before him, and only divided oy a perpendicular line, where the characters are turned in opposite directions corresponding to those of the immediately adjacent figures. ,,,. When, as in the Judgment scene at El Medineh and elsewhere, Osiris is seated looking to the right, Thoth faces him, holding in the off-hand — as more extended, by reason of the simple perspective, — the papyrus or tablet ; while the pen or style is held in the near or left hand. To have placed the pen and tablet in the opposite hands would have required a complex perspective and foreshortening, or would have left the whole action obscure and unsuited for monumental effect. Nevertheless, the difficulty is overcome in repeated examples : as in a repetition of the same scene engraved in Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Ancient EgyptiaTis (PI. 88), and on a beautifully executed papyrus, part of The Book of the Dead, now in the Louvre, and reproduced in facsimile in Sylvestre's VIII HANDWRITING 109 Universal Palaeography (vol. i. PL 46), in both of which Thoth holds the pen or style in the right hand. The latter also includes a shearer holding the sickle in his right hand, and a female sower, with the seed-basket on her lefi arm, scattering the seed with her right hand. Examples of scribes, stewards, and others engaged in writing, are no less common in the scenes of ordinary life ; and though when looking to the left, they are at times repre- sented holding the style or ptn in the left hand, yet the preponderance of evidence suffices to refer this to the exigencies of primitive perspective. The steward in a sculptured scene from a tomb at Elethya (Monuments de VJSgypte, PI. 142) receives and writes down a report of the cattle from the field servants, holding the style in his right hand and the tablet in his left. So is it with the registrar and the scribes (Wilkinson, Figs. 85, 86), the steward who takes account of the grain delivered (Fig. 387), and the notary and scribes (Figs. 73, 78) — all from Thebes, where they superintend the weighing at the public scales, and enumerate a group of negro slaves. In the colossal sculptures on the facades of the great temples, where complex perspective and fore- li! 5 ■ir U CHAP. .? ' ,1 X - i , 1 -Vil - Si S:,! ji 1X0 LEFT-HANDEDNESS shortening would interfere with the architectural effect, the hand in which the mace or weapon is held appears to be ma'nly determined by the direc- tion to which the figure looks. At Ipsamboul, as shown in Monuments do VEgypte, PI. 11, Eameses grasps with his right hand, by the hair of the head, a group of captives of various races, negroes in- cluded, while he smites them with a scimitar or pole-axe, wielded in his left hand ; but an onlooker, turned in the opposite direction, holds the sword in his right hand. This transposition is more markedly shown in two scenes from the same temple (PI. 28). In the one Eameses, looking to the right, wieldd the pole-axe in the near or right hand, as he smites a kneeling Asiatic ; in the other, where he looks to the left, he holds his weapon again in the near, but now the left hand, as he smites a kneeling negro. On the same temple soldiers are represented holding spearc in the near hand, right or left, according to the direction they are looking (PI. 22) ; and swords and shields are transposed in like manner (PI. 28). The same is seen in the siege scenes and military reviews of Eameses the Great, on the walls of Thebes and elsewhere. The evidence is misleading if the primary aim of architectural decoration is not kept Tin HANDWRITING 111 in view. In an example from Karnac — appealed to in proof that the Egyptians were a left-handed people, — where Thotmes III. holds his offering in the extended left hand, his right side is stated to be towards the observer. Nor are similar examples rare. Thoth and other deities, sculptured in colossal proportions, on the Grand Temple of Isis, at Philse, as shown by Du Camp, in like manner have their right sides towards the observer, and hold each the mace or sceptre in the extended left hand. But on turning to the photographs of the Great Temple of Denderah, where another colossal series of deities is represented in precisely the same attitude, but looking in the opposite direction, the official symbols are reversed, and each holds the sceptre in the extended right hand. Numerous similar instances are given by Wilkinson; as in the dedication of the pylon of a temple to Amun by Eameses III., Thebes (No. 470) ; the Goddesses of the West and East, booking in corresponding directions (No. 461), etc. Examples, however, occiir where the conventional formulae of Egyptian sculpture have been abandoned, and the artist has overcome the difficulties of per- spective; as in a remarkable scene in the Mem- 112 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. monium, at Thebes, where Atmoo, Thoth, and a female (styled by Wilkinson the Goddess of Letters) are all engaged in writing the name of Eameses on the fruit of the Persea tree. Though looking in opposite directions, each holds the pen in the right hand (Wilkinson, PI. 54 a). So also at Beni Has- san, two artists kneeling in front of a board, face each other, and each paints an animal, holding the brush in the right hand. At Medinet Habou, Thebes, more than one scene of draught -players occurs, where the players, facing each other, each hold the piece in the right hand. Similar illustra- tions repeatedly occur. ^ ' Among another people, of kindred artistic skill, whose records have been brought anevv" to light in recent years, tLeir monumental evidence appears to furnish more definite results ; while the curiously definite reference in the Book of Jonah leaves no room to doubt that among the ancient Ninevites it was recognised that at the earliest stage when voluntary action co-operated with the rational will, a specific hand was habitually in use. That the ancient dwellers on the Euphrates and the Tigris were a right-handed people appears to be borne out by their elaborate sculpture, recovered at Kourjucjik, Khorsa- liii ^ VIII HANDWRITING tti bad, Nimroud, and other buried cities of the great plain. The sculptures are in relief, and frequently of a less conventional character than those of the Egyptian monuments, and are consequently less affected by the aspect and position of the figures. The gigantic figure of the Assyrian Hercules — or, as supposed, of the mighty hunter Nimrod, — found between the winged bulls, in the great court of the Palace of Khorsabad, is represented strangling a young lion, which he presses against his chest with his left arm, while he holds in his right hand a weapon of the chase, supposed to be analogous to the Australian boomerang. On the walls of the same palace the great king appears with his staff in his right hand, while his left hand rests on the pommel of his sword. Behind him a eunuch holds in his right hand, over the king's head, a fan or fly-flapper ; and so with other officers ii? attendance. Soldiers bear their swords and axes in the right hand, and their shields on the left arm. A prisoner is being flayed alive by an operator who holds the knife in the right hand. The king himself puts out the eyes of another captive, holding the spear in his right hand, while he retains in his left the end of a cord attached to his victim. Similar evi- ii!;,i 114 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. I dence abounds throughout the elaborate series of sculptures in the British Museum and in the Louvre. Everywhere gods and men are represented as " dis- cerning between their right hand and their left," and giving the preference to the former. ^ H - It has been already shown that in languages of the American continent, as in those of the Algon- quins and the Iroquois, t^e recognition of the dis- tinction between the right and left hand is appar- ent ; and on turning to the monuments of a native American civilisation, evidence similar to that derived from the sculptures of Egypt and Assyria serves to show that the same hand had the pre- ference in the New World as in the Old. In the Palenque hieroglyphics of Centre! America, for example, in which human and animal heads fre- quently occur among the sculptured characters, it is noticeable that they invariably look towards the left, indicating, as it appears to me, that they are the graven inscriptions of a lettered people who were accustomed to write the same characters from left to right on paper or skins. Indeed, the pictorial groups on the Copan statues seem to be the true hieroglyphic characters; while the Palenque in- scriptions correspond to the abbreviated hieratic VIII HANDWRITING 115 writing. The direction of the profile was a matter of no moment to the sculptor, but if the scribe held his pen or style in his right hand, like the modern clerk, he would as naturally draw the left profile as the penman slopes his current hand to the right. In the pictorial hieroglyphics, reproduced in Lord Kingsborough's Mexican Antiquities, as in other illustrations of the arts of Mexico and Central America, it is also apparent that the battle-axe and other weapons and implements are most frequently held in the right hand. But to this exceptions occur ; and it is obvious that there also the crude perspective of the artist influenced the disposition of the tools, or weapons, according to the action designed to be represented, and the direction in which the actor looked. Such are some of the indications which seem to point to a uniform usage, in 80 far as we can recover evidence of the practice among ancient nations; while far behind their most venerable records lie the chronicles of palaeo- lithic ages : of the men of the drift and of the caves of Europe's prehistoric dawn. So far, then, it seems to be proved that not only among cultured and civilised races, but among the barbarous tribes of both hemispheres, — in Australia, II 116 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. «■ i II Polynesia, among the Arctic tribes of our northern hemisphere at the present day, and among the palseolithic men of Europe's post-pliocene times, — not only has a habitual preference been manifested for the use of one hand rather than the other, but among all alike the same hand hM been preferred. Yet, also, it is no less noteworthy that this prevailing uniformity of practice has always been accompanied by some very pronounced exceptions. Not only are cases of exceptional facility in the use of both hands of frequent occurrence, but while right-handed- ness everywhere predominates, left -handedness is nowhere unknown. The skill of the combatant in hitting with both hands is indeed a favourite topic of poetic laudation, though this is characteristic of every well-trained boxer. In the combat between Entellus and Dares (^n. v. 456), the passionate Entellus strikes now with his right hand and again wioh his left — Praecipitemque Daren ardens agit sequore toto, " Nunc dextra ingeminans ictus, nunc ille sinistra. But the more general duty assigned to the left hand is as the guard or the shield-bearer, as where JEneas gives the signal to his comrades, in sight of the Trojans (^n. x. 261) — I! iilii I! lillM vm HANDWRITING 117 Stans celsa in puppi ; clipeum cum deindc sinistra Extulit ardentem. The right hand may be said to express all active volition and all beneficent action, as in -^?i. vi. 370, " Da dextram misero," " Give thy right hand to the wretched," i.e. give him aid ; and so in many other examples, all indicative of right-handedness as the rule. The only exception I have been able to discover occurs in a curious passage in the Eclogues of Stobseus Ile/ot yjfvxv'i) i^ ^ dialogue between Horus and Isis, where, after describing a variety of races of men, and their peculiarities, it thus proceeds : " An indication of this is found in. the circumstance that southern races, that is, those who dwell on the earth's summit, have fine heads and good hair; eastern races are prompt to battle, and skilled in archery, for the right hand is the seat of these qualities. Western races are cautious, and for the most part left-handed ; and whilst the activity which other men display belongs to their right side, these races favour the left." Stobaeus, the Macedonian, belongs, at earliest, to the end of the fifth century of our era, but he collected diligently from numerous ancient authors, some of whom would otherwise be unknown ; but th^ passage is part of a description in t i ■ : 118 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. VIII which he speaks of the earth as having its apex or head to the south, the right shoulder to the east, and the left to the south-west ; and the left-handed races of the west may be so merely in a figurative sense. This description, at any rate, is the only indication, vague and dubious as it is, of a belief in the existence of a left-handed race. Thus all evidence appears to conflict with the idea that the preferential employment of one hand can be accounted for by a mere general compliance with prevailing custom. Everywhere, in all ages, and in the most diverse conditions of civilised and savage life, the predominant usage is the same. Not that there are not everywhere marked exceptions to the prevailing practice, in left-handed athletes, handi- craftsmen, artificers, and artists, generally character- ised by unusual dexterity ; but the farther research is carried it becomes the more apparent that these are exceptional deviations from the normal usage of humanity. II"' CHAPTER IX PSYCHO-I'HYSICAL ACTION The venerable philosopher of Chelsea, musing, with sorrowful experiences to stimulate inquisitiveness, after wondering if any people are to be found barbarous enough not to have this distinction of hands, sums up with the evasion : " Why that particular hand was chosen is a question not to be settled; not worth asking except as a kind of riddle." It seems, however, to be regarded by intelligent inquirers as a riddle that ought to be, and that can be solved, though they have wandered into very diverse courses in search of a solution. It has been affirmed, for example, that while the right hand is more sensitive to touch, and, as it were, the special seat of the sense of feeling, — as with the right-handed it may well be from constant 120 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. employment in all operations involving such a test, — the left hand is stated to be the more sensitive to any change of temperature. Mr. George Henry Lewes, in his Physiology of Common Life, says : " If the two hands be dipped in two basins of water at the same temperature, the left hand will feel the greater sensation of warmth ; nay, it will do this even where the thermometers show that the water in the left basin is really some- what colder than in the right basin ; " and he adds : "I suspect that with 'left-handed' persons the reverse would be found." On the assumption that the former is a well-established law, the latter seems a legitimate inference ; but, as will be seen from what followtj, there is good reason for doubting that the statement rests on an adequate amount of evidence. To determine the prevalence of this relative sensiti/eness to heat of the right and left hand, the, test ought to be applied to uncultured and savage, as well as to civilised man. The elements which tend to complicate the inquiry are very various. The left-handed man is nearly always ambidey*^^rous, though with an instinctive preference for the left hand in any operation . requiring either special dexterity oi unusual force. Hence his right hand, IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 121 though less in use than that of the right-handed iian, is in no such condition of habitual inertia as the other's left hand. Again, a large number give the preference to the right hand from a mere com- pliance with the practice of the majority ; but with no special innate impulse to the use of one hand rather than the other. But besides those, there is a considerable minority in whom certain indications suffice to show that the bias, though no stror.g and overruliiig impulse, is in favour of the left hand. I have, accordingly, had a series of tentative obser- vations made for me in the Physical Laboratory of the University of Toronto, under the super- intendence of Mr. W. J. Louden, Demonstrator of Physics. The undergraduates willingly submitted themselves to the requisite tests ; and the series of experiments were carried out by Mr. Loudon with the utmost care. No idea was allowed to transpire calculated to suggest anticipated results. A highly characteristic Canadian test of any latent tendency to right or left-handedness was employed. In the use of the axe, so familiar to nearly every Canadian, alike in summer camping-out and in the prepara- tion of winter fuel, the instinctive preference for one or other hand is phown in always keeping the 122 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. surer hand nearest the axe-blade. This test was the one appealed to in classifying those who sub- mitted to the following experiments. The trial was made with water very nearly 30° centigrade. The results arrived at are shown here, the persons experimented on being divided into three classes : (1) Eight-handed, or those who habitually use the right hand, and who in handling an axe place the right hand above the left, nearest ih°. ■>- ?-head. (2) Ordinarily using the right hand, but placing the left hand above the right in the use of the axe. These appear to be generally ambidextrous. (3) Those who are generally said to be left-handed, but employ the pen in the right hand, and also use that hand in many other operations. This class includes very varying degrees of bias ; and though loosely characterised as left-handed, from s^^no greater or less tendency to use that hand, the n ity of them were found to place the right ha: ' above the left in the use of the axe. One hundred and sixty-four in all were subjected to the test, with the following results: Of ninety right-handed persons, thirty-five found the right hand the more sensitive, thirty-three the left hand, and twenty-two failed to discern an appreciable difference. Of fifty- IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 128 six persons of the second class, right-handed but using the left as the guiding hand with the axe, seventeen found the right hand the more sensitive, and fifteen the left, while twenty-four felt no differ- ence. Of eighteen of the third class, six found the right hand the more sensitive, seven the left hand, and five could detect no dift'erence. Another case was that of a lady, decidedly left-handed, who writes, sews, and apparently does nearly everything with her left hand. She tried at three temperatures, viz. 5", 30°, and 48° centigrade. In the first case she pronounced the left hand to be undoubtedly colder, in the second she observed no difference, and in the third, the left hand was undoubtedly warmer. Another lady, also habitually using her needle in the left hand, and otherwise instinctively reverting to that hand in all operations requiring delicate or skilful manipulation, repeated the same experiment more than once at my request; but could not detect any difference in the sensitiveness of either hand. The results thus stated were all arrived at with great care. It is manifest that they fail to confirm the statement set forth in the Physi- ology of Common Life, or to point to any uniformity in the relative sensitiveness of the right and left 124 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. n hands. In so far as either hand may prove to be more sensitive to heat than the other, it is probably due to the constant exertion of the one hand render- ing it less sensitive to changes of temperature. Yet even this is doubtful. Two carpenters chanced to be at work in the College building while the above experiments were in progress. They were both right-handed workmen ; yet, contrary to ex- pectation, on being subjected to the test, they both pronounced the right hand to be more sensitive to heat. The statement of Mr. Lewes is so definite that the subject may be deserving of more extended experiment under other conditions. Any widely manifested difference in the sensitiveness of one of the hands, apart from its habitual use in all ordin- ary manipulation, and especially among uncultured races, would assuredly seem to indicate some con- genital distinction leading to the preferential use of the right hand. But whatever may be the source of this preference, the difference between the two hands is not so great as to defy the influence of education ; as is seen in the case of those who, even late in life, through any injury or loss of the right hand, have been compelled to resort to the less dexterous one. IX rSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 125 Of the occurrence of individual examples of left- liandedness the proofs are ample, seemingly from earliest glimpses of life to the present time ; and it would even appear that, in so far as the small yet ^ definite amount of evidence of the relative percentage of the left-handed enables us to judge, it differs little now from what it did at the dawn of definite history. Professor Hyrtl of Vienna affirms its prevalence among the civilised races of Europe in the ratio of only two per cent; and the number of the old Benjamite left-handed slingers, as distinguished from other members of the baild of twenty-six thousand war''* 013, did not greatly exceed this. In the ruder conditions of society, where combined action is rare, and social habits are less binding, a larger number of exceptions to the prevailing usage may be looked for ; as the tendency of a high civilisation must be to diminish its manifestation. But education is powerless to eradicate it where it is strongly mani- fested in early life. My attention has been long familiarly directed to it from being myself naturally left-handed; and the experience of considerably more than half a century enables me to controvert the common belief, on which Dr. Humphry founds the deduction that the superiority of the right hand 126 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. Si is not congenital, but acquired, viz. that "the left hand may be trained to as great expertness and strength as the right." On the contrary, my experi- ence accords with that of others in whom inveterate left-handedness exists, in showing the education of a lifetime contending with only partial success to overcome an instinctive natural preference. The result has been, as in all similar cases, to make me ambidextrous, yet not strictly speaking ambi- dexterous. The importance of this in reference to the question of the source of right-handedness is obvious. Mr. James Shaw, by whom the subject has been brought under the notice of the British Association and the Anthropological Institute, remarks in a communication to the latter : " Left-handedness is very mysterious. It seems to set itself quite against physiological deductions, and the whole tendency of art and fashion." Dr. John Evans, when commenting on this, and on another paper on " Left-handedness " by Dr. Muirhead, expressed his belief that " the habit of using the left hand in preference to the right, though possibly to some extent connected with the greater supply of blood to one side than the other, is more often the result of the manner in IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 127 which the individual has been carried in infancy." This reason has been frequently suggested ; but if there were any force in it, the results to be looked for would rather be an alternation of hands from generation to generation. The nurse nnturally carries the child on the left arm, with its right side toward her breast. All objects presented to it are thus offered to the free left hand ; and it is accord- ingly no uncommon remark that all children are at first left-handed. If their training while in the nurse's arms could determine the habit, such is its undoubted tendency; but if so, the left-handed nurses of the next generation would reverse the process. While, however, right-handedness is no mere acquired habit, but traceable to specific organic structure, the opinion has been already expressed • that it is only in a limited number of cases that it is strongly manifested. The conclusion I am led to, as the result of long observation, is that the preferential use of the right hand is natural and instinctive with some persons ; that with a smaller number an equally strong im- pulse is felt prompting to the use of the left hand ; but that with the great majority right-handedness 128 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP, is largely the result of education. If children are watched in the nursery, it will be found that the left hand is offered little less freely than the right. The nurse or mother is constantly transferring the spoon from the left to the right hand, correcting the defective courtesy of the proffered left hand, and in all ways superinducing right-handedness as a habit But wherever the organic structure is well developed the instinctive preference manifests itself at a very early stage, and in the case either of decided right- handedness or left -handedness, it matures into a determinate law of action, which education may modify but cannot eradicate. My colleague, Professor James Mark Baldwin, has followed up my own researches by instituting a systematic series of experiments en his infant daughter, extending over nearly the whole of her first year, with a view to ascertaining definitely the time at which the child begins to manifest any marked preference for either hand. As a specialist in the department of psycho-physics, he carried his inductive research beyond the range embraced in the present treatise ; dealing with the question of feelings of efferent nervous discharge or innervation, the motor force of memories of effortless movement, IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 129 and other conceptions of the psychologist which lie outside of the simpler issue under consideration here. Yet they naturally follow from it; for so soon as volition comes into conscious play, and the hand obeys the mind, and becomes an organ of the will, the psychical element is felt to dominate over the physical ; including that very force of will which aims at eradicating the exceptional left-handedness, and enforcing an undeviating submission to the law of the majority. It is unquestionably of first interest to the psychologist to inquire not only why the child, at the early stage in which a choice of hanc^'^ is manifested, should prefer the right hand for all strong movements; but also, whether previous ex- periences in the use of both hands leave behind a sense that the nervous discharge which actuated the right hand was stronger than that which actuated the left. But the point aimed at here is to ascertain the originating physical initiative of determinate action, antecedent to all memory; the precursor of any such action stimulated by memory of an efferent current of discharge of nervous force. For that end the following results, derived from a careful series of observations on the K 180 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. voluntary actions of a healthy child throughout its first year, are of practical significance and value. "(1) No trace of preference for either hand was found so long as there were no violent muscular exertions made (based on 2187 systematic experi- ments in cases of free movement of hands near the body : i.e. right hand 585 cases, left hand 568 cases: a difference of 17 cases; both hands 1034 cases ; the difference of 1 7 cases being too slight to have meaning). " (2) Under the same conditions, the tendency to use both hands together was about double the tendency to use either (seen from the number of cases of the use of both hands in the statistics given above), the period covered being from the child's sixth to her tenth month inclusive. " (3) A distinct preference for the right hand in violent efforts in reaching became noticeable in the seventh and eighth months. Experiments during the eighth month on this cue gave, in 80 cases, right hand 74 cases, left hand 5 cases, both hands 1 case. In many cases the left hand followed slowly upon the lead of the right. Under the stimulus of bright colours, from 86 cases, 84 were right-hand cases, and 2 left-hand. Eight-handed- IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 131 ness had accordingly developed under preasure of muscular effort " (4) Up to this time the child had not learned to stand or to creep ; hence the development of one hand more than the other is not due to differences in weight between the two longitudinal halves of the body. As she had not learned to speak, or to utter articulate sounds with much distinctness, we may say also that right or left -handedness may develop while the motor speech centre is not yet functioning."^ But memory of prior experiences, habit confirmed by persistent usage, and the influence of example and education, all come into play at an early stage, and lend confirmation to the natural bias. The potency of such combined influences must largely affect the results in many cases where the difference in force between the two cerebral hemispheres is slight; and the stimulus to preferential action is consequently weak, as in many cases it undoubtedly is, and therefore not calculated to present any insur- mountable resistance to counteracting or apposing influences. Under the term education, as a factor developing or counteracting the weak tendency ^ Science, vol. xvi. pp. 247, 248. 132 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. towards either bias, must be included many habits superinduced not only by the example of the majority, but by their constructive appliances. So soon as the child is old enough to be affected by such influences, the fastening of its clothes, the handling of knife and spoon, and of other objects in daily use, help to confirm the habit, until the art of penmanship is mastered, and with this crowning accomplishment — except in cases of strongly marked bias in an opposite direction, — the left hand is relegated to its subordinate place as a supplementary organ, to be called into use when privileged member finds occasion for its aid. But on the other hand, an exaggerated estimate is formed of the difficulties experienced by a left- handed person in many of the ordinary actions of life. It is noted by Mr. James Shaw that the buttons of our dress, and the hooks and eyes of all female attire, are expressly adapted to the right hand. Again, Sir Charles Bell remarks : " We think we may conclude that, everything being adapted, in the conveniences of life, to the right hand, as, for example, the direction of the worm of the screw, or of the cutting end of the auger, is not arbitrary, but is related to a natural endowment i!!l IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 188 of the body. He who is left-handed is most sensible to the advantages of this adaptation, from the open- ing of the parlour door, to the opening of a pen- knife." This idea, though widely entertained, is to a large extent founded on misapprehension. It is undoubtedly true that the habitual use of the right hand has controlled the form of many implements, and influenced the arrangements of dress, as well as the social customs of society. The musket is fitted for an habitually right-handed people. So, in like manner, the adze, the pla o, the gimlet, the screw, and other mechanical tools, must be adapted to one or the other hand. Scissors, snuffers, shears, and other implements specially requiring the action of the thumb and fingers, are all made for the right hand. So also is it with the scythe of the reaper. Not only the lock of the gun or rifle, but the bayonet and the cartridge-pouch, are made or fitted on the assumption of the right hand being used ; and even many arrangements of the fastenings of the dress are adapted to this habitual preference of the one hand over the other, so that the reversing of button and button-hole, or hook and eye, is attended with marked inconvenience. Yet even in this, much of what is due to habit is ascribed to nature. A Canadian 184 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. friend, familiar in his own earlier years, at an English public school and university, with the game of cricket, tells me that when it was intro- duced for the first time into Canada within the last forty years, left-handed batters were common in every field; but the immigration of English cricketers has since led, for the most part, to the prevailing usage of the mother country. It was not that the batters were, as a rule, left-handed, but that the habit of using the bat on one side or other was, in the majority of cases, so little influ- enced by any predisposing bias, that H was readily acquired in either way. But, giving full weight to all that has been stated here as to right-handed im- plements, what are the legitimate conclusions which it teaches ? No doubt an habitually left-handed people would have reversed all this. But if, with adze, plane, gimlet, and screw, scythe, reaping-hook, scissors and snuffers, rifle, bayonet, ;,nd all else — even to the handle of the parlour door, and the hooks and buttons of his dress, — daily enforcing on the left-handed man a preference for the right hand, he nevertheless persistently adheres to the left hand, the cause of this must lie deeper than a mere habit induced in the nursery. IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 135 ig on It is a misapprehension, however, to suppose that the left-handed man labours under any conscious disadvantage from the impediments thus created by the usage of the majority. With rare exceptions, habit so entirely accustoms him to the requisite action, that he would be no less put out by the sudden reversal of the door-handle, knife- blade, or screw, or the transposition of the buttons on his dress, than the right-handed man. Habit is constantly mistaken for nature. The laws of the road, for example, so universally recognised in England, have become to all as it were a second nature ; and, as the old rhyme says — If you go to the left, you are sure to go right ; If you go to the right, you go wrong. But throughout Canada and the United States the reverse is the law; and the new immigrant, adhering to the usage of the mother country, is sorely perplexed by the persistent wrong-headedness, as it seems, of every one but himself. Yet the predominant practice does impress itself on some few implements in a way sufficiently marked to remind the left-handed operator that he is transgressing normal usage. The candle, "our peculiar and household planet 1 " as Charles I^amb 186 LEFT-HANBEDNESS CHAP. ' ; I aesignates it, has wellnigh become a thing of the past; but in the old days of candle-light the snuffers 'v^ere among the most unmanageable of domestic implements to a left-handed man. They are so peculiarly adapted to the right hand that the impediment can only be overcome by the dexterous shift of inserting the left thumb and finger below instead of above. As to the right-handed adapta- tion of scissors, it is admitted by others, but I am unconscious of any difficulty that their alteration would remove. To Carlyle, as already noted, with his early experiences of country life, the idea of right and left-handed mowers attempting to co- operate presented " the simplest form of an impos- sibility, which but for the distinction of a 'right hand,' would have pervaded all human things." But, although the mower's scythe must be used in a direction in which the left hand is placed at some disadvantage — and a left-handed race of mowers would undoubtedly reverse the scythe — yet even in this the chief impediment is to co-operation. The difficulty to himself is surmountable. It is his fellow-workers who are troubled by his operations. Like the handling of the oar, or still more the paddle of a canoe, or the use of the musket or IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 187 rifle, — so obviously designed for a right-handed marksman, — the difficulty is soon overcome. It is not uncommon to find a left-handed soldier placed on the left of his company when firing ; and an opportunity — hereafter referred to, — has happily presented itself for determining the cerebral char- acteristics which accompany this strongly -marked type of left -handedness. As himself incorrigibly left-handed, the author's own experience in drilling as a volunteer was that, after a little practice, he had no difficulty in firing from the right shoulder ; but he never could acquire an equal facility with his companions in unfixing the bayonet and re- turning it to its sheath. But as certain weapons and implements, like the rifle and the scythe, are specially adapted for the prevailing right hand, and some ancient imple- ments have been recovered in confirmation of the antiquity of the bias ; so the inveterate left-handed manipulator at times reinstates himself on an equahty with rival workmen who have thus placed him at a disadvantage. Probably the most ancient example of an implement expressly adapted for the right hand is the handle of a bronze sickle, found in 1873 at the lake-dwelling of Moringen, on the f ■ f'3 CHAP. , |W ^^ LEFT-HANDEDNESS Lake of Brienue, Switzerland. Bronze sickles have long been familiar to the archaeologist, among the relics of the prehistoric era known as the Bronze Age; and their forms are included among the illustrations of Dr. Ferdinand Keller's Lah. Dwellings. But the one now referred to is the first example that has been recovered showing the complete hafted implement. The handle is of yew, and is ingeniously carved so as to lie obliquely to the blade, and allow of its use close to the ground. It is a right-handed implement, carefully fashioned so as to adapt it to the grasp of a very small hand ; and is more incapable of use by a left-handed shearer than a mower's scythe. Its peculiar form is shown in an illustration which accompanies Dr. Keller's account ; and in noting that the handle is designed for a right-handed person, he adds : " Even in the Stone Age, it has already been noticed that the implements in use at that time were fitted for the right hand only." But if so, the same adapta- bility was available for the left-handed workman, wherever no necessity for co-operation required him ,_ to conform to the usage of the majority. Instances of left-handed carpenters who have provided them- selves with benches adapted to their special use CHAP. !S have ng the Bronze ng the , Lake. is the ing the of yew, ][uely to ground, ishioned 11 hand; -handed iar form nies Dr. landle is : "Even iced that fitted for adapta- ^rorkman, ired him instances ed them- 2cial use o CD tc N O 9 00 «3: I ««. I IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 139 have come under my notice. I am also told of a scythe fitted to the requirements of a left-handed mower, who must have been content to work alone ; and reference has already been made to sets of golfing drivers and clubs for the convenience of left-handed golfers. The truly left-handed, equally with the larger percentage of those who may be designated truly right-handed, are exceptionally dexterous ; and to the former the idea that the instinctive impulse which influences their preference is a mere acquired habit, traceable mainly to some such bias as the mode of carrying in the nurse's arms in infancy, is utterly untenable. The value of personal experience in determining some of the special points involved in this inquiry is obvious, and will excuse a reference to my own observations, as confirmed by a comparison with those of others equally affected, such as Professor Edward S. Morse, Dr. E. A. Eeeve, a former pupil of my own, and my friend, Dr. John Rae, the Arctic explorer. The last remarked in a letter to me, confirming the idea of hereditary transmission : " Your case as to left-handedness seems very like my own. My mother was left-handed, and very neat-handed also. My father had a crooked little 140 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. finger on the left hand. So have I." Referring to personal experience, I may note as common to myself with other thoroughly left-handed persons, that, with an instinctive preference for the left hand, which equally resisted remonstrance, proffered re- wards, and coercion, I nevertheless learned to use the pen in the right hand, apparently with no greater effort than other boys who pass through the preliminary stages of the art of penmanship. In this way the right hand was thoroughly educated, but the preferential instinct remained. The slate- pencil, the chalk, and penknife were still invariably used in the left hand, in spite of much opposition on the part of teachers ; and in later years, when a taste for drawing has been cultivated with some degree of success, the pencil and brush are nearly always used in the left hand. At a comparatively early age the awkwardness of using the spoon and knife at table in the left hand was perceived and overcome. Yet even now, when much fatigued, or on occasion of unusual difficulty in carving a joint, the knife is instinctively transferred to the left hand. Alike in every case where unusual force is required, as in driving a large nail, wielding a heavy tool, or striking a blow with the fist, as well as in IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 141 any operation demanding special delicacy, the left hand is employed. Thus, for example, though the pen is invariably used in the right hand in pen- manship, the crow-quill and etching needle are no less uniformly employed in the left hand. Hence, accordingly, on proceeding to apply the test of the hand to the demotic writing of the Egyptians, by copying rapidly the Turin enchorial papyrus already referred to, first with the right hand and then with the left, while some of the characters were more accurately rendered as to slope, thickening of lines, and curve, with the one hand, and some with the other, I found it difficult to decide on the whole which hand executed the transcription with greater ease. In proof of the general facility thus acquired, I may add that I find no difficulty in drawing at the same time with a pencil in each hand, profiles of men or animals facing each other. The attempt to draw different objects, as a dog's head with the one hand and a human profile with the other, is unsuccessful, owing to the complex mental operation involved ; and in this case the co-operation is apt to be between the mind and the more facile hand. In the simultaneous drawing of reverse profiles there is what, to an ordinary observer, would appear to be 142 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. thorough ambidexterity. Nevertheless, while there is in such cases of ambidexterity, characteristic of most left-hauded persons, little less command of the right hand than in those exclusively right-handed, it is wholly acquired; nor, in my own experience, has the habit, fostered by the practice of upwards of seventy years, overcome the preferential use of the other hand. When attending the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held at Buffalo in 1867, my attention was attracted by the facility with which Professor Edward S. Morse used his left hand when illustrating his communications by crayon drawings on the blackboard. His ability in thus appeal' ig to the eye is well known. The Boston Evening Transcript, in commenting on a course of lectures delivered there, thus proceeds: " We must not omit to mention the wonderful skill displayed by Professor Morse in his blackboard drawings of illustrations, using either hand with facility, but working chiefly with the left hand. The rapidity, simplicity, and remarkable finish of these drawings elicited the heartiest applause of his audience." Keferring to the narrative of my own experience as a naturally left-handed person subjected IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 148 i to the usual right-hand training witli pen, pencil, knife, etc., Professor Morse remarks in a letter to me : " I was particularly struck by the description of your experiences in the matter, for they so closely accord with my own : my teachers having in vain endeavoured to break ofif the use of the left hand, which only resulted in teaching me to use my right hand also. At a short distance, I can toss or throw ' with the right hand quite as accurately as I can with my left. But when it comes to flinging a stone or other object a long distance, I always use the left hand as coming the most natural. There are two things which I cannot possibly do with my right hand, and that is to drive a nail, or to carve, cut, or wliittle. For several years I followed the occupa- tion of mechanical draughtsman, and I may say that there was absolutely no preference in the use - of either hand ; and in marking labels, or lettering a plan, one hand was just as correct as the other." - I may add he^ ^^ that in my own case, though habitually using the pen in my right hand, yet when correcting a proof, or engaged in other dis- connected writing, especially if using a pencil, I am apt to resort to the left hand without being conscious of the change. In drawing I rarely use the right 144 LEFT-HANDEDNESS ORA?, hand, and for any specially delicate piece of work, should find it inadequate to the task. The same facility is illustrated in the varying caligraphy of a letter of Professor Morse, in which he furnished me with the best practical illustration of the ambidextrous skill so frequently acquired by the left-handed. He thus writes : " You will observe that the first page is written with the right hand, the upper third of this page with the left hand, the usual way [but with reversed slope], the middle third of the page with the left hand, reversed [ie. from right to left], and now I am again writing with the right hand. As I have habitually used the right hand in writing, I write more rapidly than with the other." In the case of Professor Morse, I may add, the indications of hereditary trans- mission of left-handedness nearly correspond with my own. His maternal uncle, and also p cousin, are left-handed. In my case, the same habit appeared in a paternal uncle and a niece ; and my grandson manifested at an early age a decided preference for the left hand. Even in the absence of such habitual use of both hands as Professor Morse practises, the command of the left hand in the case of a left-handed person is such that very CHAP. work, arying which tration [red by Dbserve b hand, md, the middle rsed [ie. writing lly used dly than r Morse, trans- ind with cousin, te hahit and my decided absence 'rofessor hand in Ihat very iz PSYCHO-rnvSICAL ACTION 145 slight effort is necessary to enable him to use the pen freely with it. An apt illustration of this has been communicated to me by the manager of one of the Canadian banks. He had occasion to complain of the letters of one of his local agents as at times troublesome to decipher, and instructed him in certain cases to dictate to a junior clerk who wrote a clear, legible hand. The letters subsequently sent to the manager, though transmitted to him by the same agent, presented in signature, as in all else, a totally different caligraphy. The change of signature led to inquiry ; when it turned out that his corre- spondent was left-handed, and by merely shifting the pen to the more dexterous hand, he was able, with a very little practice, to substitute for the old cramped penmanship an upright, rounded, neat, and very legible handwriting. In reference to the question of hereditary trans- mission, the evidence, as in the case of Dr. Kae, is undoubted. Dr. R A. Keeve, in whom also the original left-handedness has given place to a nearly equal facility with both hands, informs me that his father was left-handed. Again Dr. Pye-Smith quotes from the lancet of October 1870 the case of Mr. R. A. Lithgow, who writes to say that he himself. 146 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. m his father, and his grandfather have all been left- handed. This accords with the statement of M. Eibot in his Heredity. "There are," he says, " families in which the special use of the left hand is hereditary. Girou mentions a family in which the father, the children, and most of the grand- children were left-handed. One of the latter betrayed its left-handedness from earliest infancy, nor could it be broken off the habit, though the left hand was bound and swathed." Such persistent left-handedness is not, indeed, rare. In an instance communicated M me, both of the parents of a gentleman in Shrop- shire were left-handed. His mother, accordingly, watched his early manifestations of the same tendency, and employed every available means to counteract it. His left hand was bound up or tied behind him ; and i;his was persevered in until it was feared that the left arm had been permanently injured. Yet all proved vain. The boy resumed the use of the left hand as soon as the restraint was removed; and though learning like others to use his right hand with facility in the use of the pen, and in other cases in which custom enforces compliance with the practice of the majority, he remained inveteraiely left-handed. Again a Canadian friend, whose sister-in-law is left-handed, 1 left- of M. says, 't hand which grand- etrayed jould it lid was dedness micated I Shrop- )rdingly, kndency, unteract ad him ; red that Yet all the left 1 thougli facility ■n which IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL ACTION 147 tlius wiites to me : " I never heard of any of the rest of the family who were so; hufc one of her brothers had much more than the usafd facility in using both hands, and in paddling, chopping, etc., used to shift about the implement from one hand to the other in a way which I envied. As to my sister-in-law, she had great advantages from her left-handedness. She was a very good performer on the piano, and her bass was magnificent. If there was a part to be taken only with one hand, she used to take the left as often as the right. But it was at needlework that I watched her with the greatest interest. If she was cuttmg out, she used to shift the scissors from one hand to the other ; and would have employed the left hand more, were it not that all scissors, as she complained, are made right-handed, and she wished, if possible, to procure a left-handed pair. So also v/ith the needle, she used the right hand generally ; but in many delica.tv'i Uttle operations her habit was to shift it to the left hand." In those and similar cases, the fact is illustrated that the left-handed person is necessarily ambidex- trous. He has the 'jxceptioual " dexterity " result- ing from the special organic aptitueie of the left hand, which is only paralleled in those cases of true tiai^'i .>'■■- ■■■■.» 148 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. IX right-handedness where a corresponding organic aptitude is innate. Education, enforced by the usage of the majority, begets for him the training of the other and less facile hand; while by an unwise neglect the majority of mankind are content to leave the left hand as an untrained and merely supplementary organ. From the days of the seven hundred chosen men of the tribe of Benjamin, the left-handed have been noted for their skill ; and this has been repeatedly mani- fested by artists. Foremost among such stands Leonardo da Vinci, skilled as musician, painter, and mathematician, and accomplished in all the manly sports of his age. Hans Holbein, Mezzo of Antwerp, Amico Aspertino, and Ludovico Cangiago, were all left-handed, though the two latter are described as working equally well with both hands. In all the fine arts the mastery of both hands is advantageous ; and accordingly the left-handed artist, with his congenital skUl and his cultivated dexterity, has the advantage of his right-handed rival, instead of, as is frequently assumed, starting at a disadvantage. ^■■1 IP. IX janic isage f tlie 3glect le left organ. aeu of L noted mani- stands er, and manly ntwerp, rere aU Ded as all the ageous ; ith his tias the of, as is 26. CHAPTER X CONFLICT OF THEORIES It now remains to consider the source to which the preferential use of the right hand is to be ascribed. The dominant influence of the one cerebral hemi- sphere in relation to the discharge of nerve force to the opposite side of the body is a fact which is now familiar to the physiologist, and the influence of the left cerebral hemisphere on the action of the rifht hand has already been alluded to. But this extri aely probable source of right-handedness long elude* inquirers, as will be seen from a resume of the vaiious hypotheses suggested by eminent ana- tomists and physiologists. A very slight considera- tion of the evidence already adduced in proof of the same prevalent usage from earliest times precludes the idea of its origin in any mere prescribed custom, 1- ll LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. i i enforced and developed by education into a nearly universal habit. This becomes the more manifest when it is traced back to primaeval races; found incorporated in ancient and modern, savage and civilised languages, and uncontroverted by any evi- dence calculated to discredit the indications that it was a characteristic of palaeolithic and neolithic man. The inevitable conclusion forced on the inquirer is that the bias in which this predominant law of dexterity originates must be traceable to some specialty of organic structure. On this assumption one feature in the anatomical arrangement of the most important vital organs of fhe body presents such a diversity in their disposition as would seem to offer a sufficient cause for greater energy in the limbs on one side than on the other, if accompanied by exceptional deviations from the normal condition corresponding to the occuiTence of left-handedness ; and in this direction a solution has accordingly been sought. The bilateral symmetry of structure, so general in animal life, seems at first sight opposed to any inequality of action in symmetrical organs. But anatomical research reveals the deviation of internal organic structure from such seemingly CONFLICT OF THEORIES 151 balanced symmetry. Moreover, right or left-handed- ness is not limited to the hand, but partially affects the lower limbs, as may be seen in football, skating, in the training of the opera-dancer, etc. ; and emi- nent anatomists and physiologists have affirmed the existence of a greater development throughout the whole right side of the body. Sir Charles Bell says: "The left side is not only the weaker, in regard to muscular strength, but also in its vital or constitutional properties. The development of -he organs of action and motion is greatest upon the right side, as may at any time be ascertained by measurement, or the testimony of the tailor or shoe- maker." He adds, indeed, " Certainly this superi- ority may be said to result from the more frequent exertion of the right hand; but the peculiarity extends to the constitution also, and disease attacks the left extremities more frequently than the right." With the left-handed, the general vigour and immunity from disease appear to be transferred to that side ; and this has naturally suggested the theory of a transposition of the viscera, and the consequent increase of circulation thereby transferred from the one side to the other. But the relative position of the heart is so easily determined in the I '^pp 102 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. living subject, that it is surprising how much force has been attached to this untenable theory by eminent anatomists and physiologists. Another and more generally favoured idea traces to the reverse development of the great arteries of the upper limbs a greater flow of blood to the left side ; while a third ascribes the greater muscular vigour directly to the supply of nervous force dependent on the early development of the brain on one side or the other. So far as either line of argument prevails, it inevitably leads to the result that the preference of the right hand is no mere perpetuation of convenieut usage, maturea into an acquired, or possibly an hereditary habit; but that it is, from the first, traceable to innate physical causes. This, as Sir Charles Bell conceives, receives confirmation from the fact already referred to, that right or left-handed- ness is not restricted to the hand, but affects the corresponding lower limb, and, as he believes, the whole side ; and so he concludes thus : " On the whole, the preference of the right hand is not the effect of habit, but is a natural provision; and is bestowed for a very obvious purpose." Neverthe- less, the argument of Sir Charles Bell is, as a whole, CONFLICT OF THEORIES 153 vague, and scarcely consistent. He speaks indeed of right-handedness as " a natural endowment of the body," and his reasoning is based on this assumption. But much of it would be equally explicable as the result of adaptations following on an acquired habit. Its full force will come under consideration at a later stage. Meanwhile it is desirable to review the various and conflicting opinions advanced by other inquirers. The theory of Dr. Barclay, the celebrated ana- tomist, is thus set forth by Dr. Buchanan, from notes taken by him when a student : " The veins of the left side of the trunk and of the left inferior extremity cross the aorta to arrive at the vena cava; and some obstruction to the flow of blood must be produced by the pulsation of that artery." To this Dr. Barclay traced indirectly the preferential use of the right side of the body, and especially of the right hand and foot. "All motions," he stated, "produce obstruction of the circulation; and ob- struction from this cause must be more frequently produced in the right side than the left, owing to its being more frequently used. But the venous circulation on the left side is retarded by the pulsa- tion of the aorta, and therefore the more frequent 154 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. motions of the right side were intended to render the circulation of the two sides uniform." The idea, if correctly reported, is a curious one, as it traces right-handedness to the excess of a compen- sating force for an assumed inferior circulation pertaining naturally to the right side ; and in- cidentally takes into consideration an abnormal modification affecting the development or relative disposition of organs. Both points have been the subject of more extended consideration by subsequent observers. It is curious, indeed, to notice how physiologists and anatomists have shifted their ground, from time to time, in their attempts at a solution of what has been very summarily dismissed by others as a very simple problem; until, as Dr. Struthers remarks, it "has ceased to attract the notice of physiologists only because it has baffled satisfactory explanation." ; ^^ '■■ The eminent anatomist, Professor Gratiolet, turned from the organs in immediate contact with the arm and hand, and sought for the source of right-handedness in another and truer direction, though he failed to realise its full bearings. Ac- cording to the Professor, in the early stages of foetal development the anterior and middle lobes of the "■'^■Pl CHAT. ender The as it mpen- ilation id in- ttormal •elative i been Lon by eed, to shifted ittempts nmarily roblem ; ased to cause it CONFLICT OF THEORIES 155 brain on the left side are in a more advanced condition than those on the right side, the balance being maintained by an opposite condition of the posterior lobes. Hence, in consequence of the well-known decussation of the nerve roots, the right side of the body, — so far as it is influenced by brain-force, — will, in early foetal life, be better supplied with nervous force than the left side ; and thereby movements of the right arm would precede and be more perfect than those of the left. The bearings of this line of argument in its full com- pass will come more fitly under review at a later stage. . • :. V : Dr. Andrew Buchanan, Professor of Physiology in the University of Glasgow, in a paper com- municated by him to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1862, entitled "Mechanical Theoiy of the predominance of the right hand over the left ; or more generally, of the limbs of the right side over those of the left side of the body," aimed at a solution of the question in a new way. According to him, "the preferential use of the right hand is not a congenital but an acquired attribute of man. It does not exist in the earliest periods of life." Nevertheless, "no training could 158 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHA1-. ever render the left hand of ordinary men equal in strength to the right ; " for " it depends upon mechanical laws arising out of the structure of tlie human body/' This theory is thus explained : Tn infancy and early childhood there is no difference in power between the two sides of the body ; but so soon as the child becomes capable of bringin*,' the whole muscular force of the body .nto play, "he becomes conscious of the superior power of his right side, a power not primarily due to any superior i ce or development of ilio muscles of that side, but to a purely mechanical cause. He cannot put forth the full strength of his body without first making a deep inspiration; and by making a deep inspiration, and maintaining after- wards the chest in an expanded state, which is essential to the continuance of his muscular effort, he so alters the mechanical relations of the two sides of his body that the muscles of his right side act with a superior efficacy; and, to render the inequality still greater, the muscles of the left side act with a mechanical disadvantage." Hence the preference for the right side whenever unusual muscular power is required ; and with the greatei exercise of the muscles of the right side thai' '■'ii'v''''' ^ CONFLICT OF THEORIES 167 consequent development follows, until the full pre- dominance of the right sido is the result. This ti.cory is based noL merely on the pre- ponderance of the liver and lungs on the right side, but on these further facts : that the right lung is more capacious than the left, having three lobes, while the left has only two ; that the liver, the heaviest organ of the body, is ou the same side; and that the common centre of gravity of the body shifts, more or less, towards the right, according to the greater or less inspiration of the lungs, and the consequent inclination of the liver resulting from the greater expansion of the right side of the chest. Herein ma} possibly lie one predisposing cause leading to a preferential use of the right side. But the evidence adduced fails to account for what, on such a theory, become normal deviations from the natural action of the body. The position of the liver and the intluence of a full inspiration combine, according to Dr. Buchanan, to bring the centre of gravity of the body nearly over the right foot. Hence in actively overcoming a resistance from above, as when the carter bears up the shaft of his cart on his shoulder, the muscular action origiuateb mainly with the lower 'iilS' 168 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OH A I', Wr limb of the same side, which partakes of the saim; muscular power and development as the corrospoiul- ing upper limb. On all such occasions, wliere the muscular action is brought directly into play in overcoming the weight or resistance, Dr. Buchanan aflirms that the right shoulder is much more power- ful than the left, but in the passive bearing of weights it is otherwise. The very fact that the centre of gravity lies on the right side gives a mechanical advantage in the use of the left side in sustaining and carrying burdens; and this assigned pre-eminence of the left side and shoulder, as the bearer of burdens, is accordingly illustrated by means of an engraving, representing " a burden borne on the left shoulder as the summit of the mechanical axis passing along the right lower limb." In the year following the publication of Dr. Buchanan's Mechanical Theory, Dr. John Struthers, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Aberdeen, communicated to the Edinburgh Medical Journal a paper, " On the relative weight of the viscera on the two sides of the body, and on the consequent position of the centre of gravity to the right side." In this he shows that the viscera situated on the ClIAV. CONFLICT OF THEORIES 169 same pond- :e the lay in jhanaii power- ing of .at the jives a ift side id this tioulder, ttstrated burden of the lower right side of the medial line are on an average 22*75 oz. av. heavier than those on the left side. The right lung, in the male, weighs 24 oz., the left 21, giving a preponderance of 3 oz. in favour of the right. The average weight of the heart, in the male, is 11 oz. But the left side is not only the larger, but the thicker, and as the result of careful experiments by Dr. Struthers, he assigns to the right side a full third of the weight of the heart, or 3^ oz. for the right, and 7^ for the left side. Other viscera are estimated in like manner, with the result from the whole that the centre of gravity of the body, so far as it depends on their weight and position, is nearly three-tenths of an inch distant from the medial plane towards the right side. As a physical agent constantly in operation in the erect posture, Dr. Struthers states that this cannot but exert an influence on the attitudes and move- ments of the body and limbs ; and he accordingly indicates his belief that this deviation of the centre of gravity furnishes the most probable solution of the causes " of the preference of the right hand by all nations of mankind." The value of Dr. Struthers's determination of the exact weight and relative eccentricity of the 160 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAI>. viscera on the two sides of the body was fully recognised by Dr. Buchanan ; and in a communica- tion to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1877 he stated that he had been led to greatly modify his earlier opinions. He had, as shown above, ascribed the predominance of the right hand over the left tc the mechanical advantage which the right side has in consequence of the centre of gravity inclining to it. But he says in his later treatise, "I judged hastily when I inferred that this is the ground of preference which prompts the great majority of mankind to use their right limbs rather than their left. The position of the centre of gravity on the right side is common to all men of normal conformation, and furnishes to all of them alike an adequate motive, when they are about to put forth their full strength in the performance of certain actions, to use the limbs of the right side in preference to those of the left. But such actions are of comparatively rare occurrence, and the theory fails to explain why the right limbs, and more especially the right hand, are preferred on so many occasions where no great muscular effort is required ; and Tails still more signally to explain why some men give a preference CHAP. CONFLICT OF THEORIES 161 J fully luiiica- 1 1877 modify above, ad over ich the mtre oi ais later red that prompts leir right m of the mmon to ■nishes to [hen they h in the ihe limhs le of the ,vely i^i*re why the rht hand, no great itill more [preference to the limbs of the left side, and others manifest no predilection for either." Dr. Buchanan accordingly proceeds to show that there is not only the element of the position of the centre of gravity as the pivot on which all the mechanical relations of the two sides of the body turn ; but there is, as he con- ceives, this other und no less important element. '*The centre of gravity situated on the right side is variously placed upwards or downwards, accord- ing to the original make or framework of the body." In the great majority of cases this lies above the transverse axis of the body, with a consequent facility for balancing best, and turning most easily and securely on the left foot, with the -mpulsive power effected by the muscles of the right lower limb. Man is thus, as a rule, right - footed ; and, according to I>r. Buchanan, by a necessary conse- quence becomes right-handed. By a series of diagrams he accordingly shows the assumed varia- tions: (1) the centre of gravity above the trans- verse axis, with its accompanying right-handedness ; (2) the centre of gravity corresponding with the transverse axis, which he assigns to the ambidex- trous; and (3) the centre of gravity below the transverse axis begetting left -handedness. The 162 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. whole phenomena are thus ascribed to the in- stinctive sense of equilibrium, which constitutes a nearly infallible guide in all the movements of the human body. The greater development of the organs of motion of the right side is therefore, as he conceives, not congenital, but arises solely from the greater use that is made of them. The relative position of the centre of gravity depends accordingly on the original conformation of the body. Broad shoulders, muscular arms, a large head and a long neck, all tend to elevate the centre point; while the contrary result follows from width at the haunches and a great development of the lower limbs. The intermediate condition, in which the centre of gravity falls upon the transverse axis, with no instinctive tendency to call into action the muscles of the one side of the body in preference to those of the other, constitutes, according to Dr. Buchanan, the most happy conformation of the body. "It belongs," he says, "more especially to the female sex. It is this that so often renders a young girl a perfect model of grace and agility. It is the same conformation that enables the ballet-dancer to whirl round on her one foot till the spectators are CONFLICT OF THEORIES 163 ihe in- tutes a , of the of the sfore, as jly from relative ordingly Broad d a long it; while L at the he lower giddy with looking at her, when she completes her triumph by revolving with the same ease and grace on her other foot also." He further adds : " If accurate statistics could be obtained, I believe it would be found that while a very great majority of males are right-handed, the proportion of females is less ; and that, on the contrary, a larger propor- tion of females than of males are ambidextrous or left-handed." Consistently with the ideas thus set forth, both Dr. Buchanan and Dr. Struthers regard right- handedness as an acquired habit, though under the influence and control of the mechanical forces indicated by them. " As the question," says the latter, " in so far as it can bear on the cause of the preference of the right hand, must turn on the weight and position of the viscera in the child at the period when the predominance of the right hand is being gradually developed, in the second and third years, and afterwards, it is necessary to make the calculation from the facts as presented in children." In a letter tx) myself he thus writes : "I have again and again verified the fact in my own children, that in early childhood there is no preference for one hand more than the other." 0H4P. fiiliii 164 LEFT-UANPEPNP3 But this, as has been already shown, may be partly due to modes of nursing and other temporary causes afifecting the child in its first infantile stage ; and though it may undoubtedly be affirmed of many, if not indeed of the majority, of children at that stage : a certain number will be found to manifest a distinct preference, at a very early age, for one or the other hand. In the case of a niece of my own, the left-handedness showed itself very soon ; and in my grandson it was independently observed by hla mother and nurse, and brought under my notice, that so soon as he was able to grasp an object and transfer it from one hand to the other, he gave the preference to the left hand. A like decided pre- ference for the right hand, though doubtless also comparatively rare, is more frequent; and the farther research is carried, the more manifest does it appear that — whatever be the originating cause, — the preferential use of what we designate the right hand is instinctive with a aulUciently large number to determine the piHsvalent usage, while with a sum Her number an equally strong impulse is felt prompting to the use of the left hand, in (k^ance of all restraining influences. It is indeed •Iways necessary to give f ^'' v^ight to the influences CONFLICT OF THEORIES 165 partly causes re ; and : many, at that anifest a ir one or my own, on; and erved by ly notice, ibject and J gave the sided pre- )tless also and the ifest does iing cause, lijuate the [ntly large Lge, while ig impulse It hand, in |t is indeed iniluences of education, the whole tendency of which, from early childhood, operates in one direction. The extent to which this is systemp,tically employed to develop the use of the one hand at the expense of the other, is illustrated by the conventional rules lor the use of the knife and fork. It is not sufficient that the knife shall be invariably held in the right hand. The child is taught to hold his knife in the right hand and his fork in the left when cutting his food; but when either the fork or spoon is used alone, it must forthwith be trans- ferred to the right hand. All voluntary employ- ment of the left hand in any independent action is discountenanced as awkwardner ; or gaucherie ; and thus, with a large majority, especially among the more refined and conventional classes of society, it is rendered a comparatively useless member, employed at best merely to supplement the other. Reference has already been made to more or less definite allusions to an exceptional prevalence of left -handedness in the Punjab, and among the Sandwich Islanders, the Hottentots, and South African Bushmen ; but they rest apparently on very partial and limited observations. So far as appears, it may be confidently assumed that left- 160 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CUAl'. handedness is little more prevalent among the rude and uncultured classes of society, or among savage than civilised races ; as would certainly be the case if right-handedness mainly depended on an acquired habit. The Kev. George Brown, who has spent upwards of fourteen years as a missionary among the Polynesians, informs me that left-handedness is as rare among the natives of the Pacific Islands as with ourselves ; while in all their languages the distinction is clearly indicated. Dr. Eae, whose own inveterate left-handedness was calculated to draw his attention to its manifestation among the Indians and Eskimos with whom he was brought into pro- longed contact, only noticed such an amount of ambi- dextrous facility as is naturally developed in the paddler, the trapper, and lumberer, in the exigencies of forest and hunter life. A similar opinion was expressed to me by Paul Kane, whose wanderings as an artist among the tribes of British Nortli America gave him exceptional facilities for observa- tion ; and this conclusion accords with the experience of members of the Canadian Geological Survey. Turning next to the idea set forth by Dr. Buchanan as to the greater preponderance of amln' dexterity or left-handedness among females, the iMii CONFLICT OF THEORIES 167 results of my own observation by no means tend to confirm this. I have already noted the case of a lady whose left-handedness is accompanied by great dexterity. I have repeatedly met with cases of ladies who use the needle skilfully with the left hand ; but the results of inquiries addressed to musicians and music teachers indicate that in the great majority of cases the cultivation of the left, as the weaker or less skilful hand, has to be sedulously enforced in the training of the female organist and pianist. It is because left-handed pianists are rare that their exceptional dexterity is noted, as in the case of a Canadian lady referred to above : " She had great advantages from her left- handedness. She was a very good performer on the piano, and her bass was magnificent." Again as to the pirouetting of the trained ballet- dancer, I have been assured that much practice is re(j[uired to obtain equal facility on either foot. Dr. Buchanan traces the development of the limbs in their active use from the first effort of the child to stand erect; next, the learning to balance itself and turn ro^nd on a single foot, and so through a BMCfymd^ of stages, until at length "the child becomeF ffght footed. It is not till long after that 4 168 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. the right arm acquires its predominance." But the co-ordination of the right or left hand and the corresponding foot is by no means so invariable as to justify any such theory. Hopping, pirouetting, and standing on one foot are comparatively excep- tional actions. The two lower limbs ar3 most frequently employed in necessarily alternate locomo- tion. The use of the lower limbs, moreover, is much more independent of direct conscious volition than that of the hands, and the purposes to which their action is applied are rarely of a nature to invite special attention to them. There is, however, an instinctive tendency with many, if not indeed with the majority, to use one foot in preference to the other, but not necessarily the corresponding one to the dexterous hand, be it right or left. In skat- ing, for example, where military training has not habituated to the use of the left foot in starting, most persons liave an instinctive preference for one foot. So also in foot})all, it is not with most players a matter of mere chance whi/ib foot will be used in starting tJie ball. Possibly the 8amo lufimn may help to a/'count for the invariable tendency of ii bliiid/old Walker to deytB^M to ofld side or the ot^^r. It i« scarcely ^fmi}}}^ to walk in » straight line CONFLICT OF THEORIES 169 with the eyes shut. The one leg apparently tends to outwalk the other. Guided mainly by my own experience, I remarked, when first writing on this subject, that " the same influences appear to affect the whole left side, as shown in hopping, skating, football," etc. But this is partial and uncertain. Dr. Brown -Sequaid affirms that right - sidedness afiects the arms much more than the legs, and in proof of this he states that " it is exceedingly rare that the leg is affected in the same degree by paralysis as the arm." Dr. Joseph Workman, for many years Medical Superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Toronto, thus writes to me: "When you say that left-footedness is (only) as frequent as left-handedness, I am quite sure you are in error. I remember well, when I was a boy, observing the fact among labouring men engaged in what was called in Ireland ' sodding ' potatoes, in ridges about five feet wide, instead of planting in drills, that in any given number of men, from four up to a dozen, right and left-footedness prevailed about equally. Each pair carrying up the work of a ridge required to be right and left-footed men. I tti/i myself left- footed; and of eight brothers, I lielieve about four were left and four right-footed. 170 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. Sir Charles Bell, in asserting that * no boy, unlcRg he is left-handed, hops on the left foot,' asserts far more than the fact. I believe every boy will hop on his spade foot ; at least I do so, and I am not left-handed; and I instinctively do so because I dig with this foot." Dr. Buchanan states that " in all adults who use the right hand in preference to the left — that is, in tlie great majority of mankind, — the muscles of the right side, as well as the bones and other organs of motion, are more highly developed than those on the left side;" and the predominance of the upper limb follows, as a rule, the previous development of the lower limb on the same side. The power of overcoming weight or resistance, and that of passively bearing weights, he assigns to opposite sides, — both naturally resulting from the centre of gravity lying on the right side. If such be the case, the great majority of mankind should instinctively use the same side in bearing a burden. A favourable opportunity occurred for testing this question. During a voyage of some days in one of the large steamboats on the Mississippi River, my attention was attracted by the deck -porters, who at every landing are employed in transporting the freight to CONFLICT OF THEORIES 171 and from the levee, and in supplying the vessel with cordwood. They constitute, as a class, the rudest representatives of unskilled labour, including both whites and negroes. For hours together they are to bo seen going at a run to and from the lower deck of the vessel, carrying sacks of grain, bales, chests, or bundles of cordwood. "Watching them closely, I observvid that some gave the preferrnce to the right and some to the left shoulder 'u bearing their burden ; and this whether, as with bale and sack, they had it placed on their shoulders by others, or, as with cordwood, they took the load up them- selves. Noting in separate columns the use of the right and left shoulder, and in llie case of loading with cordwood the employment of the right and left liand, I found the difference did not amount to much more than 60 per cent. In one case I noted 137 carry the burden on the left shoulder to 81 on the right; in another case 76 to 45; and in the case of loading cordwood, where the natural action of the right hand is to place the burden on the left shoulder, so that the use of the right shoulder necessarily implies that of the left hand, the numbers were 65 using the left shoulder and 36 the right. Here, therefore, a practical test of a very T IMAGE EVALUATBON TEST TARGET (MT-S) £o ^ / i/.A .. ^ 1.0 I.I 150 ""^ IIBH ;; E£ 12.0 L25 i 1.4 1.6 #'■ '> Sdences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-4S03 M A i\ iV ^ •S5§ :\ \ ''V ?# 4^ 'r.%^ ^.^ 172 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP, wsimpl(3 yet reliable kind fails to confirm the idea of any such mechanical cause inherent in the constitu- tion of the human frame, tending to a uniform exertion of the right side and the passive employ- ment of the left in muscular action. While thus questioning some of the assumptions and deductions set forth by Dr. Buchanan, ir must be acknowledged that his later theory has this great advantage over other attempts to account for right- handedness, that it equally meets the cases of deviation from prevalent usage. No theory is worthy of serious conaideration which deals with left -handedness as an exceptional deviation from habitual action ; as where, in his earlier treatise, Dr. Buchanan expressed the belief that many instances of left-handedness pre " merely cases of ambidextrcus- ness, when the habit of using the left side, in what- ever way begun, has given to the muscles of that side such a degree of development as enables them to compete with the muscles of the right side, in spite of the mechanical disadvantages under which they labour." " There is an awkwardness," he added, " in the muscular efforts of such men which seems to indicate a struggle against nature." But for those indisputable cases of " men who unquestionably use CONFLICT OF THEORIES 173 their left limbs with all the facility and efficiency with which other men use their right," he felt com- pelled either to resort to the gratuitous assumption of " malformations and pathological lesions in early life, diseases of the right lung, contraction of the chest from pleurisy, enlargement of the spleen, dis- tortions of the spine," etc. ; or to assume a complete reversal of the whole internal organic structure. More recputly, Dr. Humphry of Cambridge has discussed the cause of the preferential use of the right hand in his monograph on The Human Foot and Human Hand, bui with no very definite results. Many attempts, he says, have been made to answer the question, Why is man usually right-handed ? "but it has never been done quite satisfactorily; and I do not think that a clear and distinct explana- tion of the fact can be given. There is no anatomical reason for it with which we are acquainted. The only peculiarity that we can discern is a slight difference in the disposition, within the chest, be- tween the blood-vessels which supply the right and left arms. This, however, is quite insufficient to account for the disparity between the two limbs. Moreover, the same disposition is observed in left- handed persons and in some of the lower animals ; 174 LEFT-HANDEDNESS chap. and in none of the latter is there that difference between the two limbs which is so general among men." Dr. Humphry accordingly inclines to the view that the superiority of the right hand is not natural, but acquired. "All men," he says, "are not right-handed ; some are left-handed ; some are ambidextrous ; and in all persons, I believe, the left hand may be trained to as great expertness and strength as the right. It is so in those who have been deprived of their right hand in early life ; and most persons can do certain things with the left hand better than with the right." So far, therefore, Dr. Humphry's decision would appear to be wholly in favour of the conclusion that the superiority of the right hand is an acquired habit, But after stating thus much, he adds : " Though I think the superiority of the right hand is acquired, and is a result of its more frequent use, the tendency to use it in preference to the left is so universal that it would seem to be natural I am driven, therefore, to the rather nice distinction that, though the superiority is acquiied, the tendency to acquire the superiority is natural." This "nice distinction" amounts to something very like an evasion of the real difficulty, unless CONFLICT OF THEORIES 175 we assume Dr. Humphry to mean only what Dr. Buchanan states, that during the weakness of infancy end childhood the two hands are used indiscrimi- nately ; and the preferential use of one side rather than the other does not manifest itself until the muscular system has acquired active development. All the processes by which dexterity in the manipu- lation and use of tools is manifested, are acquired, whether the right or the loft hand be the one employed. Men are not bom, like ants, bees, spiders, martins, and beavers, with carpentering, weaving, modelling, and architectural instincts, requiring no apprenticeship or culture ; though the aptitude in mastering such arts is greater in some than in others. If the tendency in their practice to use the right hand is natural, that is to say, imiate or congenital, then there need be no nice distinctions in affirming it. But on any clearly defined physiological deductions of right-handedness from the disposition of the organs of motion or circulation, or any other unil rm relation of the internal organs and the great arteries of the upper limbs, left -handedness becomes mysterious, if not inexplicable, unless on the assumption of a corre- sponding reversal of organic structure; for Dr. 176 LEFT-HANDEDNESS cnAr. Humphn 's assertion that " in all persons the left hand may be trained to as great expertness and strength as the right," is contradicted by the experi- ence of left-handed persons in their efforts to apply the same training to the right hand. To the most superficial observer it is manifest that the anatomical disposition of the vital organs is not symmetrical. The heart lies obliquely, from above downwards, and from right to left ; the trachea is on the right side, and the right and left subclavian veins and arteries are diversely arranged. There are also three lobes of the right lung, and only two of the left; and the liver is on the right side. Here, therefore, are sources of difference between the right and left sides of the body, which, if subject to variailon, offer a possible explanation of the pheno- menon that has so long baffled physiologists. To the variations in the disposition of those organs attention has accordingly been repeatedly directed; as in the occasional origin of the left subclavian artery before the right, which, as hereafter noted, Professor Hyrtl suggested as the cause of the transfer of dexterity to the left limb. But instances have repeatedly occurred of the entire transposition of the viscera. " There are men born," says Dr. Buchanan, CONFLICT OF THEORIES 177 "who may grow up and enjoy perfect health, iu whom the position of all the thoracic and abdominal viscera is reversed. There are three lobes of the left lung and only two of the right ; the liver is on the left side, and the heart is on the right ; and so forth." Those and other malformations, as well as pathological lesions, especially if they occur in early Ufe, may affect the relative power of the two sides ; and Dr. Buchanan at a later date reported a case that came under his own notice, in which the entire transposition of the viscera coexisted with left- handedness. But he had already adopted the mechanical theory, subsequently modified, as ex- plained above ; and it is only in a closing remark in his paper of 1862 that he makes a passing reference to this remarkable coincidence. Professor Hyrtl of Vienna, the eminent anatomist already referred to, in discussing the cause of left- handedness in his Handbuch der TopograpMschen Anatomie (1860), affirms a correspondence between the ratio of left-handed persons and the occurrence of certain deviations from the normal arrangements of the blood-vessels. "It happens," he says, "in the proportion of about two in a hundred cases, that the left subclavian artery has its origin before the N i' ir 178 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. right, and in these cases left-handedness exists, as it also often dctually does in the case of complete transposition of the internal organs ; and it is found that the proportion of left-handed to right-handed persons is also about two to one hundred." Professor Hyrtl thinks that ordinarily the blood is sent into the right subclavian under a greater pressure than into the left, on account of the relative position of these vessels ; that in consequence of the greater supply of blood, the muscles are better nourished and stronger ; and that therefore the right extremity is more used. In cases of anomalous origin of the left subclavian, etc., the reverse occurs, and therefore the left hand is employed in preference. The theory of Professor Hyrtl has this feature to recommend it, that it assigns a cause for the prevalent habit, whicli, if confirmed, would equally account for the excep- tional left-handedness ; and no proffered solution of the question, founded on organic structure, is deserv- ing of attention which fails to do so. But the statistics of such internal organic structure are not, like those of the transposition of the heart and immediately related organs, accessible in the living subject, unless in very rare exceptions; and the Qccurr3nce of one or two cases in wh.oh the devia- CONFLICT OF THEORIES 179 exists, as complete t is found lit-handed Professor sent into 3sure than position of ;lie greater nourished t extremity :igin of the id therefore The theory lommend it, abit, which, the excep- solution of [e, is deserv- But the lire are not, heart and the living ls; and the the devia- tion from the normal arrangement of the artery, or the entire transposition of the viscera, is found to coexist with left-handedness, may only be misleading. A correspondent of Nature (9th June 1870) refers to a case of transposition of the origin of the right subclavian artery, disclosed by the occurrence of aneurism, where the person was ascertained to have been undoubtedly right-handed. In the following year an interesting article by Dr. Pye- Smith appeared in the Guy's Hospital Reports, and was subsequently reprinted, with additions, under the title of " The connection of Left-handed- ness with transposition of Viscera and other sup- posed anatomical causes." In this the author states that he found the deviation from the normal arrangement of the primary branches of the aorta, in which the right subclavian arises from the third part of the aortic arch, to occur four times in 2 9 G dissections. As this variation, he says, " cannot be recognised during life, its connection with left- handedness is not easy to investigate. But in one case, at least, Dr. Peacock ascertained for me that the subject of this abnormality, whose heart and arteries he had examined for another purpose, was right-handed during life." Any one can tell on ill 180 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. which side his heart lies; but the disposition of the subclavian artery is wholly beyond his cogni- sance ; and, indeed, Professor Hyrtl, while referring to this abnormal organisation as one probable cause of left-handedness, does not affirm more than that the one has been ascertained in some cases to be an accompaniment of the other. The evidence that in other cases it has been unaccompanied by left-handed- ness shows that it is no necessary source of devia- tion from normal action. The other theory, that left-handedness is an inevitable accompaniment of the transposition of the viscera, is more easily tested. It is one that has been repeatedly suggested; and has not only received the sanction of Professor Hyrtl, but is supported by some undoubted cases in which the two conditions coexisted. But, as Dr. Pye-Smith remarks, "a few such instances only prove that transposition of the viscera does not prevent the subject of the abnormality from being left-handed. Though attention has hitherto been little drawn to this point, there are enough cases already recorded to show that for a person with transposed viscera to bv> left-handed is a mere coincidence." In con- firmation of this. Dr. Pye-Smith refers to four cases, X CONFLICT OF THEORIES 181 one of wliich came under his own observation in Guy's Hospital, where the subjects of the abnormal disposition of the viscera had been right-handed. In the Rochester ^N.Y.) Express of October 1877 a notice appeared of an autopsy on the body of George Vail, of Whitby, Ontario, who had recently died in the Eochester Hospital. Dr. Stone, as there stated, "noticed upon the first examination, when the patient came for treatment, that there was what is technically called 'juxtaposition of the heart,* which is a very rare condition. He was gratified at the autopsy to have his diagnosis confirmed, the heart being found on the right side of the body instead of the left." I immediately wrote to Whitby, and in reply was informed that no one had ever noticed in Vail any indication of his being left- handed. A similar case of the transposition of the viscera, in which, nevertheless, the person was right-handed, recorded by M. G^ry, is quoted in Cruveillier's Anatomic (i. 65). Another is given by M. Gachet, in the Gazette des Hospitaux, 31st August 1861; and a third in the Pathological TransactioTis, Vol. XIX. p. 147 {Nature, 28th April 1870). This evidence suffices to prove that there is no true relation between the transposition 182 LEFT-HAITDEDNESS CHAP. X iTir of the viscera and left-handedness. Dr. Struthers has shown that "as far as the viscera alone are concerned, the right side is at least 22 J ounces heavier than the left, and that this is reduced 7| ounces by the influence of the contents of the stomach, leaving a clear preponderance of at least 15 ounces in favour of the right side." The pre- ponderance of the right side, he adds, is probably considerably greater than 15 ounces, and it is rendered still more so in the erect posture. The total weight of viscera on the right side he states at 50 J ounces, while that of the left side is only 28 ounces, giving a visceral preponderance on the riglit side of 22 J ounces. But if this relative excess of weight on the right side be the true source of right- handedness, the transposition of the viscera ought to be invariably accompanied with a corresponding change. A single example of the preponderant cause, unaccompanied by the assumed effect, is sufficient to discredit the theory. ■T3e■^^.T^^'^^.'^T^ ^J " ■ 7^a^ ^ -■^~Hr^^■a^y CHAPTEE XI HAND AND BRAIN There remains to be considered the source suggested by Professor Gratiolet, when he turned from the organs in immediate contact with the arm and hand to the cerebral centre of nerve force. The state- ments advanced by him that the anterior convolu- tions of the left side of the brain are earlier de- veloped than those of the right, when taken in connection with the well-known decussation of the nerve-roots, would account for the earlier develop- ment of the muscles and nerves of the right arm ; but his opinion has been controverted by competent observers. This, however, does not dispose of the question. The localisation of the mental operations? of speaking, naming, and writing in certain specific cerebral centres, and the recognised functional '^*'-X iMHHH I J !^iit< CHAP. 184 LEFT-HANDEbNESS relations df those word-centres with other active cerebration, have given a new significance to the vital action of the brain as the seat of nerve-force. It was only in 1861 that M. Broca definitely assigned the posterior part of the third frontal convolutic»ii of the ^-.^ft hemisphere as the seat of articulate speech. More recently this has been followed up by observations suggestive of some possible correlation between the reflex action of the cerebral hemispheres on the Umbs ; but it has thus far been no more than a passing allusion, tending to beget observation of possible coincidences, such as may be found between left -handedness and either an accompanying transposition of the seat of articulate speech to the right hemisphere, or some prevailing characteristic of the degree of word -memory in the left-handed. A recent ob- server. Dr. J. Batty Tuke, definitely affirms that "the large proportion of cases of ataxic aphasia occur in association with right -sided hemiplegia, although others are on record in which it has appeared in connection with left-sided hemiplegia in left-handed persons" (JETicyc. Britann., art. " Aphasia "). In those an intimate relation is thus established between right or left-handedness and CHAP. ZI HAND AND BRAIN 185 lei active ce to the erve-force. definitely Li'd frontal the seat 1 has been } of some ition of the it has thus on, tending lences, such jdness and )f the seat lisphere, or degree of recent oh- iffirms that dc aphasia lemiplegia, dch it has hemiplegia tann., art. ion is thus edness and the development of the opposite cerebral hemi- sphere. The special limitation of the researches of Dr. Guiseppe of Pisa to "the writing of left-handed persons" naturally directed his attention to this element of cerebration. " Clinical observation and pathological anatomy," he remarks, "have clearly shown that in the foot of the second frontal con- volution of the left cerebral hemisphere there is located a centre for the co-ordination and the memory of the movements of writing. The de- struction of this centre produces agraphia, that is to say, inability to co-ordinate and remember the move- ments for writing. This graphic centra is situated on the left hemisphere in right-handed persons." At the same time he is careful to assert that both in this writing-centre, and in that of the foot of the third frontal convolution, to which is assigned the co-ordi- nation and memory of the movements for articulate speech : in the case of lesions impairing their powers, it has been found possible to stimulate the corre- sponding centres of the opposite hemisphere so as in more or less degree to perform their functions ; just as the dorii^ant left hand may be educated to take the place of the paralysed or amputated right hand. I >* '■■' 186 LEFT-HANDEDNESS OHAP. Dr. Guiseppe thus proceeds : " In left-handed persons the centres of the neuro-psychic factors of language are situate in the right hemisphere, as has been shown by well-studied cases. These persons, however, learn to write with the right hand and not with the left. And yet in their right hemisphere there is a potentiality which is very favourable for their education in the co-ordination and the memory of the movements for writing. Left-handed persons perceive that they could learn to write with greater facility with the left hand than with the right; but education succeeds in awaking and conveniently bringing into action in the left-hand sphere a latent cortical centre, which did not present so favourable a potentiality as that of the right hemisphere. The possibility of investigating what influence in left- handed persons practice with the right hand might develop in the left hemisphere for the explication of language, would certainly constitute a theme for important study" (Archivio Italiano, September 1890, pp. 306, 307). With the attention that is now definitely given to this assignment of the preferential use of one or the other hand to greater or less development of the opposite cerebral hemisphere, renewed observa- XI }ft~ handed ) factors of lere, as has se persons, nd and not hemisphere rourable for the memory ided persons Tfith. greater I the right; conveniently here a latent JO favourable jphere. The Bnce in left- hand might e explication a theme for |temberl890, [finitely given luse of one or Lvelopment of Iwed observa- HAND AND BRAIN 187 tion has been directed to the cerebral source of predominant right-handedness. The discussions in the columns of Science, suggested by Professor Baldwin's study of its first manifestations, have revived the reference of it to the assumed excess in development of the left cerebral hemisphere. Dr. T. O'Connor of New York thus reasserts it as an unquestionable though little-known fact: "But it may not be generally known that the left cerebral hemi- sphere is larger than the right, its inner face (at the great longitudinal fissure) coming very near to the middle line, while the corresponding inner edge of the right hemisphere is well to the right of the median line. The existence, then, of greater nutrition and greater functionating ability in the left hemi- sphere might well be assumed. But that there is a reason for the greater size, development, etc., of the left hemisphere is evidenced by a study of the condi- tions of blood-supply to the two hemispheres. The left carotid artery ascends almost perpendicularly, so as to form, as it were, an elongation of the ascending aorta, while the right carotid is given off from the arteria innominata. The right vertebral artery is given off by the subclavian after the latter has described its arch and become horizontal, but tiie ill sr. ?88 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. nil Iff III left vertebral arises from the apex of the subclavian's curve. There is thus the distinct advantage to the left hemisphere of a better blood-supply because of the much straighter course taken by the great channels carrying it" {Science, 12th December 1890). This idea of a greater development of the left cerebral hemisphere has been the subject of consider- able diversity of opinion. A marked difference ir the weight of the two hemispheres has indeed been repeatedly asserted by well-qualified observers as the result of careful investigation. M. Broca stated that in forty brains he found the left frontal lobe heavier than the right ; and Dr. Boyd, when describ- ing the results obtained by him from observations on upwards of 500 brains of patients in the St. Marylebone Hospital, says : " It is a singular fact, confirmed by the examination of nearly 200 cases at St. Marylebone, in which the hemispheres were weighed separately, that almost invariably the weight of the left exceeded that of the right by at least the eighth of an ounce." Dr. Brown-Sequard also, as hereafter noted, makes this apparent excess iu weight of the left hemisphere of the brain the basis of very comprehensive deductions. Again Dr. Bastian afiirms, as a result of careful observation, XI HAND AND BRAIN 189 ibclaviaii's tage to the because of the great iberl890). of the left of consider- iifference ir indeed been observers as Broca stated frontal lohe vhen describ- observations ;s in the St. lingular fact, [y 200 cases ispheres were )ly the weiglit ^y at least the uard also, as tt excess in [rain the basis Again Dr- 1 observation, that the specific gravity of the gray matter from the frontal, parietal, and occipital convolutions respect- ively is often slightly higher on the left than it is on the right hemisphere. The opinion is thus sustained by some of the most eminent physiologists who have given special attention to the brain and its functions. But, on the other hand, Profes^^r Wagner and Dr. Thurnam both state that their careful independent investigations failed to confirm the results arrived at by M. Broca and Dr. Boyd. From the weighing of the two hemispheres of eighteen distinct brains. Professor Wagner found the right hemisphere the heavier in ten, and the left in six cases, while in the remaining two they were of equal weight. Dr Thurnam, without entering into details, states that the results of his weighings did not confirm Dr. Boyd's observations; adding that " fresh careful observations are certainly needed before we can admit the general preponderance of the left hemisphere over the right." Though the two hemispheres of the brain are sufficiently distinct, they are united at the base ; and even with the most careful experimenters, the section through the cerebral peduncles and the corpus callosum is so dehcate an operation that a very slight bias of the m 190 LEFT- HANDEDNESS CHAP. operator's hand may affect the results. That a difference, however, is occasionally demonstrable in the weight of the two hemispheres is unquestionable, and the whole tendency of the most recent investiga- tion is to sustain the hypothesis which refers the cause of ieft-handedness to an exceptional excess of nervous force in the right cerebral hemisphere. But the results to be anticipated from the partial char- acter of the bias in the majority of the right-handed would tend to suggest a doubt as to the full acceptance of the statement of Dr. O'Connor adduced above. It is rather in accordance with what has already been affirmed as to the very partial prevalence of any strongly defined bias in the majority for the preferential use of either hand, that many brains should come under the notice of careful observers where little or no difference can be found between the two hemispheres. But weight is not the only element of variation. Dr. Bastian, in The Brain as an Organ of Mind, draws attention to the unsyni- metrical development of the two hemispheres as one of the most notable peculiarities of the human cerebrum. This is not only the case with reference to the number and arrangement of the convolutions, bu*-, it has been noted by various anatomists that the XI HAND AND BRAIN 191 That a itrable in jstionable, investiga- refers the L excess of Lcre. But rtial char- tht-handed 3 the full Lor adduced I what has L prevalence ity for the tany brains 1 observers id between ot the only ,e Brain as ;he unsym- leres as one ;he human ;h reference mvolutions, its that the left hemisphere is very frequently slightly longer than its fellow. But interesting light has been thrown by patho- logical observations on the comparative relations of the cerebral hemispheres ; and in this more than in any other direction we may look for further elucida- tion. As already noted, Sir Charles Bell affirms a general inferiority in muscular strength and in vital properties of the left side of the body, and a greater liability to disease in the left extremities than the right. On the other hand. Dr. O'Connor refers a greater susceptibility to disease of the left hemisphere of the brain to what he assumes as the source of superior vital force. Having assigned the causes of greater development as already cited, he proceeds to affirm that " the greater directness of communication between the heart and left hemisphere explains the greator readiness with which the latter is subjected to certain fo]:ms of disease. A clot of fibrine whipped off a diseased valve is carried mucii more readily because of the direct route {fid the carotid) to the left hemisphere; and in conditions of de- generative weakness of the arteries in general, those of the left hemisphere being subjected to greater pressure in their distal ramifications, will 192 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. be more apt to yield than corresponding ones in the right." Dr. Bastian, when commenting in his Brain as an Organ of Mind on the specific location of the cerebral function of articulate speech in the third left con- volution of the brain, remarks : " It has been thought that a certain more forward condition of development of the left hemisphere — as a result of hereditary right-handedness recurring through generation after generation, — might gradually become sufficient to cause the left hemisphere to take the lead in the production of speech-movements. Some little evi- dence exists, though at present it is very small, to show that it is left-handed people more especially who may become aphasia by a lesion of the right third frontal gyrus." Dr. Bastian further assumes it to be indisputable that the greater preponderance of right-hand movements in ordinary individuals must tend to produce a more complex organisation of the left than of the right hemisphere ; and this both in its sensory and motor regions. "With the left-handed, however, so many motives are constantly at work tending to call the right hand into play, that the compensating influences must in their case tend to check any inequality in the development of XI HAND AND BRAIN m the two liemisplieres ; so that there would seem rather to be a probability in favour of a more equable, and consequently healthful development of both cerebral hemispheres in the left-handed, but really ambidextrous manipulator. But it is to be noted that while Dr. Bastian recognises a correlation between the development of one or other cerebral liemisphere and the greater dexterity of the opposite hand, he is inclined to recognise right or left-handed- ness as the cause rather than the effect. Dr. Brown-Sequard, who strongly favours the idea of superiority, both in size and weight, of the left over the right cerebral hemisphere, also ascribes the source of this to the greater frequency and energy of all right-hand movements. He reverts to an argument derived from left -handedness when discussing his theory that the two hemispheres practically constitute two distinct brains, each sufficient in itself for the full performance of nearly all mental operations ; though each has also its own special functions, among which is the control over the movements and the organs of opposite sides of the body. " Every organ," he says, " which is put in use for a certain function gets developed, and more apt or ready to perform that function. Indeed, the lil : 194 LEFT-IIANDEDNESS CHAP. brain shows this in point of mere size ; for the left side of the brain, which is used most, is larger than the right side. The left side of the brain also receives a great deal more blood than the right side, because its action preponderates; and every organ that acts much receives more blood." He accord- ingly affirms that the growth of the brain up to forty years of age, if not indeed to a considerably later period of life, is sufficiently marked to require the continued enlargement of the hat. The evidence he adduces, based on observing that a hat laid aside for a time and then resumed, always proved to be too small, is probably deceptive. But the growth of the adult brain is no longer disputed. It was indeed affirmed by earlier physiologists, as by Soemmering, the Wenzels, and Tiedemann, that the brain attained its greatest development not later than seven or eight years of age. But this idea is now entirely abandoned ; and — without going so far as to affirm with Dr. Brown-Sequard, who claims that at the age of fifty-seven he found by the test of hat measurement that his head had enlarged within every six months, — the latest observers adduce proof of continuous increase of brain weight, if not of bulk, imtil the greatest XI HAND AND BRAIN m average weight is reached between tliirty and forty years of age. On the assumption of Dr. Brown-Sequard that the left hemisphere of the brain exceeds that of the right both in size and weight : in the deviations from this normal condition there ought to be found the corresponding development of the organ brought into use. But, like most other right-handed re- viewers of the phenomena of left-handedness, he fails to appreciate the bearings of his own argument in the case of a left-handed person conforming in many ways to the usage of the majority, yet instinctively giving the preference to the left hand. He dwells on the fact that very few left-handed persons have learned to write with the left hand, and that those who can do not write nearly so well with it as with the right hand. Even in persons who are left- handed naturally, so that the right side of the brain may be assumed to control the reasoning faculties and their expression, he argues that the left side of the brain " can be so educated that the right hand, which that side of the brain controls, produces a better handvi^riting than that by the left hand, though that is controlled by the better developed brain." But the reasoning is alike partial and ««■ H 196 LEFT- HANDEDNESS OHAP. misleading. The left-handed person systematically submits to disabilities in his efforts to comply with the usage of the majority, not only in holding his pen in the right hand, but in the direction and slope of the writing. A left-handed race would naturally write from right to left, sloping the letters towards the left, and so would place the right-handed penman at a like disadvantage, wholly independent of any supposed change in the functions or pre- ponderating energy of either hemisphere of the brain. But even in the absence of practice, tlie command of the left hand in the case of a truly left-handed person is so great that very slight effort is required to enable him to write with ease witli that hand. , . — / Ee verting once more to the singularly interesting phenomena whereby in certain conditions of cerebral disease, or local injury, the correlation between articulate speech, writing, and even the unconscious expressiveness of gestures, used certain specific con- volutions of the left hemisphere, Dr. Pye-Smitli says: "The opinion that some difference between the two sides of the brain has to do with our prefer- ence for the right hand over the left may, perhaps, be supported by two very interesting cases of aphaslu II: 'fi XI HAND AND HRAIN ■urn. occurrinjT in left-handed persons, recorded by Dr. Ilughlings Jackson ;uid Dr. John Ogle. In both these patients thei was paralysis of the liift side ; so tlmt it seems likely that in these two left-handed people the right half of the brain had the functions, if not the structure, which ordinarily belong to the left. To these cases may be added a very remark- able one published by Dr. Wadham (St. George's Hospital Report, 1869). An ambidextrous or partially left-handed lad was attacked with left hemiplegia and loss of speech ; he had partly re- covered at the time of his death, twelve months later, and then the right insula and adjacent parts were found softened." The remarkable difference in the convolutions of different brains, and the consequent extent of super- ficies of some brains over others apparontly of the same size, have been matter of special observation, with results lending confirmation to the idea that great development of the convolutions of the brain is the concomitant of a corresponding manifestation of intellectual activity. But the complexity in the arrangement of these convolutions, and the conse- quent extent of superficies, often differ considerably in the two hemispheres of the same brain. The K.*. 198 LEFT-HANDEPNESS CHAP. variations in shape and arrangement of the convohi- tions in either hemisphere may be no more than the accidental folds of the cerebral mass, in its later development in the chamber of the skull; and within ordinary limits they probably exercise no appreciable influence on physical or mental activity. In so far as right-handedness is a result of organic structure, and not a mere acquired habit, some trace of it should be found in the lower animals, though in a less degree. Dr. Buchanan, in discuss- ing his Mechanical Theory, notes that, " while the viscera of the quadruped have the same general later- alised position as in man, there is a reason why this should be carried to a greater extent in man than in the quadruped, owing to the much greater lateral development of the chest and abdomen of the human figure, in order to adapt it to the erect posture, as contrasted with the great lateral flattening of the trunk in quadrupeds. The equipoise is there- fore more disturbed in man than in the quadruped." In the case of the monkey, its necessities as a climber no doubt tend to bring all its limbs into constant use; but, possibly, careful study of tne habits and gestures of monkeys may disclose, along with their ambidextrous skill, some traces of a pre- XI HAND AND BRAIN 199 ference for the limbs on the one side. The elephant has been repeatedly affirmed to betray a strongly marked rigiit-sidedness ; and this is reiterated in a communication by Mr. James Shaw to the Anthropo- logical section of the British Association, where he notes the " curious fact that elephants have been frequently known to use the right tusk more than the left in digging up roots, and in doing other things.'* But the statement is vague, and, even if confirmed by adequate proof, can scarcely be regarded as the equivalent of right-handedness. In dogs it may be noticed that they rarely move in the direct line of their own body, but incline to one side or the other, the right hind-foot stepping into the print of the left fore-foot, or vice versd. In the horse, as in other quadrupeds, a regular alternation in the pace is manifest, except when modified by education for the requirements of man. I experienced no difficulty in teaching a favourite dog to give the right paw ; and no child could more strongly mani- fest a sense of shame than he did when reproved for the gaucherie of offering the wrong one. The saddle horse is trained to prefer the right foot to lead with in the canter ; while the same animal is educated differently when destined for a lady's use ; 200 LEFT-ixANDEDNESS CHAP. ■ 3j 4- V>- -^ .1 but I have been informed by two experienced veterinary surgeons that, while some horses learn with very slight training to start with the right foot, others require long and persevering insistency before they acquire the habit. A curious relation between man and the lower animals in the l ani- festation of the organic influences here noted is indicated by a writer in the Coimhill Magazine, when, referring to the well-ascertained fact that aphasia is ordinarily accompanied with disease of the right side of the brain, he says : " Kight-sidedness extends to the lower races. Birds, and especially parrots, show right-sidedness. Dr. W. Ogle has found that few parrots perch on the left leg. Now parrots have that part at least of the faculty of speech which depends on the memory of successive sounds, and of the method of leproducing such imitation of them as a parrot's powers permit ; and it is remarkable that their left brain receives more blood and is better developed than the right brain." The same writer expresses his doubt as to monkeys showing any tendency to right-handedness; but with tlie constant use and training of the hands by the Quadrumana in their arboreal life, opportunities for the manifestation of any instinctive preference for XI HAND AND BRAIN 201 either hand must be rare ; and is likely to elude all but the most watchful observers. A paper was communicaied by Dr. Delaunay to the Anthropological Society of France, on the subject of right-handedness. I only know of it by an imperfect notice, in which he is reported to look on the preferential use of the right hand as a differentiation arising from natural selection, while he regards ambidexterity as a mere " survival." But Dr. Pye-Smith long ago remarked that " it is clear that in the progress of civilisation one or other hand would come to be selected for the more characteristic human actions for which only one is necessary, such as wielding a pen or other weapon ;" but he recog- nises the insufficiency of the suggestion, and adds in a footnote : " The difficult point is to guess by what process the right rather than the left hand has been 80 universally preferred." He then glances at possible guidance lo be derived from the study of the habits of savage tribes, though still the old difficulty recurs ; and he thus proceeds : " In default of any better suggestion, might one suggest an hypothesis of the origin of right-haudedness from modes of fighting, more by way of illustration than as at all adequate in itself ? If a hundred of our 202 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. 'i ambidextrous ancestors made the step in civilisation of inventing a shield, we may suppose that half would carry it on the right arm and fight with the left, the other half on the left and fight with the right. The latter would certainly, in the long run, escape mortal wounds better than the former, and thus a race of men who fought with the right hand would gradually be developed by a process of natural selection." The recognition of the shield-hand, and the passive functions assigned to it, has already been referred to as one familiar to the ancient Greek and Eoman, and no doubt to other and earlier nations. But here it is diverted to the service of one of the latest aspects of evolutionary dpvelop- ment, and becomes the begetter instead of the product of left-handedaess. To this idea of riglit- handedness as one of the results of a survival of the fittest, Dr. Delaunay adds the statement, professedly based on facts which he has accumulated, that ambidexterity is common among idiots. The results noted probably amount to no more than the negative condition of general imbecility, in which the so-called anibidexterity of the idiot involves, not an excep- tional skUl in the left hand, equalising it with thp right, but only a succession of feeble and often aim- mm XI HAND AND BRAIN 203 less actions manifesting an equal lack of dexterity in either hand. Where left-handedness h strongly developed, it is, on the contrary, not only accompanied with more than average dexterity in the organ thus specialised, but also with a command of the use of the right hand, acquired by education, which gives the individual an advantage over the great majority of right-handed men. The surprise occasionally manifested at any display of dexterity by left- handed performers, as though it were accomplished under unusual disadvantages, is altogether unjustified. In reality, a strongly developed left-handedness is, equally with a strongly developed right-handedness, an indication of exceptional dexterity. Such skill as that of the left-handed slingers of the tribe of Benjamin is in no way exceptional. All truly left- handed, as well as all truly right-handed persons, are more likely to be dexterous than those who are unconscious of any strong impulse to the use of either iiand. The bias, whether to the right or the left, is, I feel assured, the result of special organic aptitude. With the majoiity no well-defined bias betrays any unwonted power, and they merely follow in this, as in so much else, the practice of the pre- dominant number. But there is no such difference '<:'= 204 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. between the two hands as to justify the extent to which, with the great majority, one is allowed to become a passive and nearly useless member. The left hand ought to be educated from the first no less than the right, instead of leaving its training to be effected, imperfectly and with great effoit, in later life, to meet some felt necessity, r Dr. Brown-Sequard, in one of his latest discus- sions of the closely related, though much more comprehensive question, " Have we two brains ? " remarks : " We have a great many motor elements in our brain and our spinal cord which we absolutely neglect to educate. Such is the case with the elements which serve for the movements of the left hand. Perhaps fathers and mothers will be more ready to develop the natural powers of the left hand of a child, giving it thereby two powerful hands, if they believe, as I do, that the condition of the brain and spinal cord would improve if all tlieir motor and sensitive elements were fully exercised." Without entering on the discussion of the larger question of the specific duality of the brain, experi- ence shows that wherever the early and persistent cultivation of the full use of both hands has been carried out, the result is greater efficiency, without XI HAND AND BRAIN 205 any counterbalancing defect. Under no enforcement of a violation of his innate impulses does the left- lianded person ever exchange hands. He acquires an educated right hand and retains the dexterity of the left. In those cases where, by reason of injury or disease, the sufferer is compelled to resort to the neglected hand even late in life, it proves quite possible to train it to sufficient aptitude for all ordinary requirements. It is therefore obviously the duty of parents and teachers to encourage the habitual use of both hands; and in the case of manifest left-handedness, to content themselves with develop- ing the free use of the right hand without suppress- ing the innate dexterity of the left. My own experi- ence, as one originally left-handed, is that, in spite of very persistent efforts on the part of teachers to suppress all use of the left hand, I am now thoroughly ambidextrous, though still with the left as the more dexterous hand. I use the pen in the right hand but the pencil in the left ; so that, were either hand disabled, the other would be at once available for all needful operations. Yet at the same time the experience of a long life assures me that scarcely any amount of training will suffice to invest the naturally sinister hand, whether it be the right or LEFT-HANDEDXES3 CHAP. the left, with the dexterity due to innate, congenitul, and therefore ineradicable causes. Nevertheless we are bimanous in the best sense, and are meant to have the free unrestrained use of both hands. In certain arts and professions both hands are neces- sarily called into play. The skilful surgeon finds an enormous advantage in being able to transfer his instrument from one hand to the other. The dentist has to multiply instruments to make up for the lack of such acquired power. • The fencer who can transfer his weapon to the left hand, places his adversary at a disadvantage. The lumberer finds it indispensable in the operations of his woodcraft to learn to chop timber right and left-handed ; and the carpenter may be frequently seen using the saw and hammer in either hand, and thereby not only resting his arm, but greatly facilitating his work. In all the fine arts the mastery of both hands is advantageous. The sculptor, the carver, the drafts- man, the engraver, and cameo -cutter, each has recourse at times to the left hand for special manipu- lative dexterity ; the pianist depends little less on the left hand than the right ; and as for the organist, with the numerous pedals and stops of the modern grand organ, a quadrumanous musician would still XI HAND AND BRAIN find reason to envy the ampler scope which a Biiareus could command. On the other hand, it ia no less true that, while the experience of every tlioroughly left-handed person shows the possibility of training both hands to a capacity for responding to the mind with promptness and skill : at the same time it is apparent that in cases of true left-handed- ness there is an organic specialisation which no enforced habit can wholly supersede. Having determinately arrived at the conclusion that the source of right-handedness, and so of the exceptional occurrence of left-handedness, is to be sought for in the preponderant development of one ' or other hemisphere of the brain, and that, there- fore, the test has to be sought in the examination of the brains of persons of exceptional dexterity, whether in the use of their right or left hand, the diflficulty has been to obtain the desired objects of study. A considerable number of observations are desirable ; and those can only be gradually accumu- lated as opportunities present themselves to observant students. As already noted, men of the first emi- nence have differed on the question of the greater weight of the left than of the right cerebral hemi- sphere ; nor does a study of the ordinary manifesta- 1^ r \if^ h- im:> 208 LEFT- HANDEDNESS CHAP. tion8 of right-handedness encourage us to expect a very marked difference in the cerebral hemispheres in the majority of men. It need not therefore surpriH*! us to find so able and experienced an observer as Dr. Thurnam reviewing the data pub- lished by Boyd, Brown - Sequard, and Broca, and expressing as his final conviction that further careful observations are needed before the general preponder- ance of the left hemisphere over the right can bo accepted as an established truth. As already noted, Dr. Boyd gives as the result of his observations on upwards of 500 human brains, that the weight of the left hemisphere almost invariably proved to be in excess of that of the right. In forty cases Dr. Broca found similar results, and observers of less note confirm them ; so that but for the eminent authorities by whom those conclusions have been challenged, it would seem presumptuous to refuse them acceptance. But, countenanced by this conflict of opinion, it may .be permissible to review the question in the narrower aspect of the present inquiry. Testing it then by a reverse process, and assuming hypo- thetically that the exceptionally dexterous right- handed man will be found to have the left hemi- XI HAND AND BRAIN 209 sphere tlio lieavier, aud tlie true left-handed man vice versd, the results arrived at by Dr. Boyd are altogetlier in excess of what might be anticipated. The number of the exceptionally dexterous right- handed, with an invincible instinctive preference for the use of that hand, though large in comparison with the no less dexterous left-handed, are never- theless a minority. Habit, social usage, and educa- tion in all its forms, in the school, the drawing- room, the workshop, in all the arts of peace, and in nearly every operation of war, have so persistently fostered the development of the favourite hand that it is scarcely possible to arrive at any reliable statistics in proof of the initial proclivities of the large majority of conformists. Only a prolonged series of observations such as those already noted by Professor Baldwin, made at the first stage of life, and based on the voluntary and the un- prompted actions of the child, can supply the needful data. But the careful observations of many years, prompted by a desire to master the source of an exceptional instinctive habit, have convinced me that the bias towards the preferential use of either hand in many, probably in the majority of cases, is slight. It is sufiScient to lead to their follow- 210 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. :- i ing the practice of the determiiiately right-handed majority, but would not in itself present an obstacle to conformity to any prevalent usage, or to the influence of education. If then the preference of either hand furnishes any ^ndex of the relative development of the two cerebral hemispheres, what we may reasonably look for is a certain considerable percentage of brains with the weight of the IJX hemisphere in excess ; a small percentage equally definitely characterised by the preponderance \\\ the right hemisphere ; while in the averago brain the difference will be so slight as to be ant to oscar..' observation. It is further to be noted that if the habitual use of the right hand tends in any degree to stimulate the development of the left cerebral hemisphere, then the examples of strongly-marked cases of such must greatly exceed those of the reverse type; since the left-handed man is almost invariably ambidextrous, and so subjects both hemi- spheres to the frequent stimulus of efferent nerve- force. If the attention of physiologists devoted to cerebral investigations is specially turned to the present aspect of research, cases of well-marked left-handed patient', or what is manifestly of even XI HAND AND BRAIN 111 greater significance, of exceptionally dexterous right- handed patients, in hospitals, asylums, and gaols, will from time to time present themselves. It has in- deed been affirmed that left -handedness prevails among the " light-fingered " experts who find fre- quent lodging in our gaols. The statement rests on no basis of statistical evidence ; but I can readily imagine that a left-handed pickpocket tum- ir g hh exceptional dexterity to account, might find at t mes the same advantage that Ehud, the son '.;£ Oera the Beujamite, derived from using the hand cfdinarily recognised as passive or inert. As to the more daring burglar, his sinister dexterity fills peaceful householders with trepidation as soon as the rumour transpires of his presence in their midst. In reality, however, the fancied prevalence of left- handed ness among savages, criminals, and idiots, is a mere reflex of the long prevalent misconception that the preferential use of the left hand is solely due to acquired habit, incurable awkwardness, and incapacity. This is an idea that has often checked the development of exceptional dexterity and a full command of both hands. Meanwhile it is only in so far as the hand may prove to be an index of the brain that observation 212 LEFT-HANDEDNi<:i^3 CHAV. is possible on the living subject. If the transposition of the viscera, and the exceptional pressure of the heart on the right, instead of the left side, were the source or the unvarying concomitant of left-haudedness this could be tested with ease on the living subject. But the brain is beyond our reach ; though patho- logical phenomena, along with the results of vivi- section in the study of lower animal life, have thrown a jflood of light on its functions ; as well as on tlie localisation of specific cerebrations in their relation to sense, to language, and to general perceptions as elements of mental action. A monograph on left -handedness, ultimately printed in the Proceedings of the Boyal Society of Canada for 1886, was long delayed, in the hope of meeting with some response to appeals I had re- peatedly addressed to medical friends, in the expecta- tion that, sooner or later, some strongly-marked case of left-handedness among hospital or other patients might afford an opportunity for securing an autopsy of the brain. But unless the fact has been previously noted, there is little occasion in the passivr condition of mortal disease to give prominence to the left- handed action of a patient, and I had to rest content with inviting attention to the subject when a XI HAND AND BRAIN 218 favouring opportunity presented itself. But my an- ticipations of the result to be looked for were very definite, could the required organ of exceptionally developed nerve-force be got hold of. There was indeed one very suitable brain close at hand, and available for many curious speculative researches ; but wholly beyond reach of ocular investigation by me. I could therefore only draw attention to it as possibly accessible to some future investigator, since evon vivisection must needs defeat my aim. I accordingly remarked : " My own brain has now been in use for more than the full allotted term of threescore years and ten, and the time cannot be far distant when I shall be done with it. When that time comes, I should be glad if it were turned to account for the little further service of settling this physiological puzzle. If my ideas are correct, I anticipate as the result of its examination that the right hemisphere will not only be found to be heavier than the left, but that it will probably be marked by a noticeable difference in the number and arrangements of the convolutions." Happily since then the long-coveted opportunity has been afiforded me. In February 1887 I learned from Dr. Daniel Clark, Superintendent of 214 LEFT-HANDEDNESS CHAP. the Provincial Asylum at Toronto, of the death of Thomas Neilly, a patient who had been under the doctor's care for nearly two years. He was a native of Ireland, had served in the army, and was there noted as so inveterately left-handed that he was placed on the extreme left of his company, and allowed the exceptional usage of firing from the left shoulder. He could read and write, and was con- sidered a man of good intelligence, till he attained his thirty-fourth year, when symptomb oi insanity manifested themselves, and he was removed to the asylum, where he died. My colleague. Professor Kamsay Wright, accompanied me to the asylum on my learning of his death. Tha brain was removed and the two hemispheres carefully weighed. Cerebral disease manifested itself in the evidence of softening of the brain. 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