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engaging in the usual activities of children has 

 often turned his attention to scholarship. 

 Galton says that great divines have usually 

 had very poor health. Genius is frequently 

 associated with physical defects. Great spe- 

 cialization is associated with corresponding 

 limitations in other directions. Society needs 

 the genius and the specialist, but for the gen- 

 eral good of mankind the generalized type of 

 man is needed even more than the specialized. 



No given environment or training can be 

 good for every individual, nor for the same 

 individual at every stage of development. 

 Every individual is unique and if the best re- 

 sults are to be had must have unique environ- 

 ment and training, which must be supplied by 

 omniscient intelligence. The impossibility of 

 securing the absolutely best conditions of de- 

 velopment need not prevent society from se- 

 curing better conditions than those which now 

 prevail. 



It is plain that environment and education 

 play a greater part in the development of man 

 than in that of other animals, whereas heredity 

 plays the same part; but it is difficult if not 



