Excerpt from The Psychology of Manual Training Ou the other hand, mere prescription, mere inhibitory will power developed to extremes produces only a mechanical civiliza tion a dead mechanical state of social existence. We look upon the Chinese education as productive of such a condition. All is cut and dried and given to the pupil as a ready-made form into which he must fit himself by inhibition of natural caprice and inclination. The consequence is the least possible progress and the completest administration of the old system. What the philosophy of history must regard as the ideal stan dard of progress among nations is therefore not a mere perfection in administration, for this is achieved in the perfectly stationary empire of conservatism. 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.