Excerpt from Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes For this reason the question Of arrangement was an excessively difficult one to me. The relations Of individual development to race development are so intimate the two are so identical, in fact - that no topic in the one can be treated with great clearness without assuming results in the other. SO any order Of treatment in such a work must seem finally to be only the least of possible evils. My final arrangement of chapters presents, however, when a patient reader is in front Of the page, a fair degree of reason, I think. The earliest chapters (i. To. VI.) are devoted to the statement Of the genetic problem, with reports Of the facts Of infant life and the methods Of investigating them, and the mere teasing out of the strings Of law on which the facts are beaded the principles Of Suggestion, Habit, Accommodation, etc. These chapters have their own end as well, giving researches Of some value, possibly, for psychology and education. They serve their purpose also in the progress Of the book, as giving a statement of the central problem Of motor adaptation. Chapter V. Gives a detailed analysis Of one voluntary function, Handwriting. Then follows the theory of adaptation, stated in general terms in Chap ters VII. And VIII.; and afterwards comes a genetic view in detail (chaps. IX. To XVI.) Of the progress Of mental devel opment in its great stages, Memory, Association, Attention, Thought, Self-consciousness, Volition. SO the whole is a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.