Can knotty fingers become .smooth by neglect of order and intellectual pursuits?

No, this is not in accordance with nature. A person born with intellectual capacities will always have those capacities, le this environment be as unfavourable as possible, and he will show this capacity to a certain ex­tent in all he says and does: for no person who is born an intelligent being can become an idiot, although he can be­come insane The difference between idiotcy and insanity being that an idiot lacks the brain development necessary for the manifestation of intellect, and an insane person possesses the development but it is inflamed or diseased, and thus the manifestation becomes uncontrollable by the-will. It is far easier to bring intuition and impulse (shown by smooth joints) to the grade of reason and judgment (shown by the developed joints), than to retrograde and go from reason and judgment to instinct and impulse.