312 Conclusion, and Future Outlook 



THE OUTLOOK VERY PROMISING 



Throughout the United States there is being mani- 

 fested a general tendency to accept the theory that 

 our human stock is relatively sound. While there 

 are seemingly large numbers of the criminal, delin- 

 quent, and dependent classes, they are in reality 

 comparatively few in proportion to the entire popu- 

 lation. And when we accept the estimate of the 

 experts that about ninety per cent of the cases included 

 in the classes just named are preventable through 

 wise foresight and training, the outlook for a better 

 race of human beings becomes most cheering. 



"The proper study of mankind is man," says the 

 poet. But for many generations we have regarded 

 this statement as mere poetry and not necessarily 

 truth. Our policy up to the recent past has been 

 rather this : The proper study of mankind is every- 

 thing except man, leaving the all-important problems 

 of child-rearing to the decisions of wise old grand- 

 mothers and debating societies. But a radical change 

 has come, and that within this present generation. 

 Men and women highly trained in the colleges and 

 universities are now applying their scientific methods 

 to the study of man with no less zeal and earnestness 

 than that which has characterized the student of the 

 non-human problems for many generations of time. 



Through the able conclusions of the painstaking 

 expert the so-called institutional life has been espe- 



