Excerpt from The New Education Mr. James Boswell was in the habit of starting intellect ual game for his great guide, philosopher, an d friend - Dr. J ohn son - to run down of asking all kinds of questions on things in heaven and t h in g s on earth; of propos ing all kinds of problems, both possible and impossible. Perhaps one of the most remarkable ques tions he ever started - one of the most dith cult problems he ever proposed - was one which relates to the new-born baby. Boswell, a man not without insight, and with a firm belief. In the far-seeingness of his oracle, gives us the following. 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.