4 The Recapitulation Theory and Human Infancy 



the difficulties of the first. At least the possibility should not 

 be denied in advance of a fair trial. Obviously the resources 

 of child psychology would be immensely amplified if they might 

 include those of comparative psychology and ethnology. This 

 hope may stand as some justification for the present effort 

 to clear away some part of the obscurity which gathers about 

 the relations of the child and the race. If this should be in- 

 sufficient there still remains the interest which attaches to a 

 knowledge of the net result of one phase of a significant pioneer 

 movement in the study of childhood. 



