Excerpt from The Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child: A Psychological Outline of Normal Development From Birth to the Sixth Year, Including a System of Developmental Diagnosis We have attempted a systematic survey of the ordinary and normal behavior of infancy and early childhood. In making this survey it has been our purpose to formulate the findings with sufficient concreteness to make them suitable for at least par tial application. The characteristics of infancy are so chang ing and so fugitive that orderly information becomes a practical necessity. 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.