. The Argonaut. , that there is a likecriminal tendency, and that the paths divergenot so much as a result of original sin as ofteaching and environment. Human evolutionhas been upward through the kingdoms of na-ture, through savagery and the lower carry in ourselves the whole of the story,and the tendencies of each stage are readyto burst into activity at the beck of congenialenvironment. Man contains within himselfall impulses through which the race haspassed. Their suppression or recrudescencedepends upon education and opportunity: There can hardly be any doubt that there is atime
. The Argonaut. , that there is a likecriminal tendency, and that the paths divergenot so much as a result of original sin as ofteaching and environment. Human evolutionhas been upward through the kingdoms of na-ture, through savagery and the lower carry in ourselves the whole of the story,and the tendencies of each stage are readyto burst into activity at the beck of congenialenvironment. Man contains within himselfall impulses through which the race haspassed. Their suppression or recrudescencedepends upon education and opportunity: There can hardly be any doubt that there is atime in the life of every normal boy when primi-tive impulses, the reverberation of savage life,carry him on, with almost resistless fury, towarda life of crime. In other words, the period of growth is arecapitulation upon a small scale of all racialexperiences. Education alone can determinewhether these recurring and miniature im-pulses shall be allowed to arrest developmentup to the point of present race Elizabeth Dejeans, Author of The WinningChance. J. B. Lippincott Company. Into subsidiary and physical causes for sucharrest it is impossible here to enter. It issufficient to say that the author deals withhim with his usual completeness and in sucha way as to stimulate the medical and surgicalattention that is now being given to so-calledbackward children. Another valuable chapter is on The Psy-chology of Learning. The author affordsus a glimpse into the mysterious processes ofmind. He treats of the cultivation of habit,the formation of tendencies, the meaning offatigue, and the actual value of periods ofretardation in education. He shows us thatthe mind has laws infinitely more complexthan those of any material machine and thatit is as possible to comply with those laws asto violate them. Still more important, heshows us that the machine is different withevery child and that we need individualismrather than collectivism in education. - It is impossible to read this b
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