. The conservation of the child; a manual of clinical psychology, presenting the examination and treatment of backward children . apering fingers may have a few qualifica-tions for the career of a successful pickpocket, but itwould assuredly be preposterous to arrest every such manbecause of these misfortunes of birth. In fact, it is safe to say that physical signs of degenera-tion, taken by themselves, are most untrustworthy evi-Btigmata dcuce upou which to base predictions of intel-beTraken^ Icctual or moral accomplishments. Taken in^^°^^ consideration, for example, with conduct or character
. The conservation of the child; a manual of clinical psychology, presenting the examination and treatment of backward children . apering fingers may have a few qualifica-tions for the career of a successful pickpocket, but itwould assuredly be preposterous to arrest every such manbecause of these misfortunes of birth. In fact, it is safe to say that physical signs of degenera-tion, taken by themselves, are most untrustworthy evi-Btigmata dcuce upou which to base predictions of intel-beTraken^ Icctual or moral accomplishments. Taken in^^°^^ consideration, for example, with conduct or character as revealed in a long series of actions all tendingtoward increasing retardation in any child who is fallingfarther and farther behind his companions in school-grades, stigmata have a considerable weight in deciding thecauses of such tendencies of conduct. A microcephalicskull, , one smaller in birth than the average, in itselfsign fies nothing regarding mental endowment. Men withsuch reduced brain spaces arc found in professors chairs 1 The Young Malefactor, Thomas Travis. New York, T. & Co., 1908. C^
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