CHAPTER XX 



CONCLUSION, AND FUTURE OUTLOOK 



IN concluding this volume we wish again to remind 

 parents of the necessity of working for specific results 

 in the rearing of their children. Modern man, unlike 

 his ancestor, who roamed over the earth, is a creature 

 of complex and highly refined make-up which no 

 primitive or natural environment could possibly 

 produce. The forces that work upon his character 

 development are so radically different from those 

 which formed the life of his remote forbears as pos- 

 sibly to account for the contrasts in the two forms 

 of finished personality. 



Although there is evidence to support the theory 

 that man belongs to the general evolutionary scheme 

 of animal life, the progress of the race has been so 

 very slow that a thousand years of time can show no 

 very distinct improvement either in physical form or 

 mental quality. While the human young is exceed- 

 ingly plastic as an individual, yielding easily from 

 one side of his inherent activities to another, the 

 race is relatively fixed and stable. 



STRIVE FOR PRECONCEIVED RESULTS 



Parents and other instructors of the young must 

 therefore accept their charges as made up of very com- 



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