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Excerpt from The Nervous System, of the Child, Its Growth and Health in Education At the close of the nineteenth century, as we review the progress that has occurred in the conditions of social life and the trend of public opinion and thought, we cannot fail to be impressed with the greater refinement and humanity in the management of children, and the increasing appreciation of the real value of the mental aspects of life. Most of the great achievements of this century have resulted from the increase of exact knowledge and the application of scientific principles to the objects to be obtained. Perhaps in no branch of study has more activity been displayed than in that which concerns mind. Especially has much been accomplished in that part of this study which deals with the evolution of brain action as observed in the child. Recent advances in this direction have made it possible and desirable to adapt those methods to child-study which have been employed in physics, biology, natural history, and medicine; i.e, methods of observation, description, and inference. 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.