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uncorrupted by the years, while the genius who can turn out 

 his best work at sixty-five must thank his pituitary for standing 

 by him to the end. 



The Science of Puericulture 



There is a specialty now growing in the womb of science which 

 in its own good time will come to fruition as the study of the 

 child's needs or puericulture. Even today there exists a scientific 

 basis for the formulation of the principles upon which every 

 child should be brought up. Though we have had marvelous 

 results from the campaigns to lower infantile mortality, m< 

 what has been done has been medical in its interest, and so 

 largely negative in its accomplishments. The removal of the 

 causes of evil no doubt gives the good its opportunity. But how 

 to raise a child, endowed with satisfactory ancestral stuff, as a 

 Grade A normal or supernormal, still remains to be erected into 

 an exact science. 



A number of attempts have been abortive in this field. Why 

 they have failed to arouse the ardor of the parent has puzzled 

 some of the pioneers. Child-culture as the foundation of all 

 systems of education has continued more or less of a hope rather 

 than an achievement because of a lack of appreciation of the 

 different constitutional varieties of children. A certain amount 

 of attention has been lavished upon children needing special at- 

 tention, those mainly suffering from insufficient development of 

 one sort or another. In the last decade or so, an endeavour to 

 focus upon the exceptional child, exceptional in inteUigen 

 some special creative endowment, has started an interesting i 



All of tliem have suffered from the fa I : I troubles 



of the pure psychologist who would handle mind as an entity in 

 a vacuum. 



A realization of the different physic' 

 needs of various children will arrive only when w 

 built differently. Just as shoddy and silk, cotton and wool, alone 

 or in combination, all possess different qualities as wearing ma- 

 '. so different children have v wear 



and tear of education. The endocrine classification of the human 

 applied to children, will 1 



and to tin- co un t ry . Nothing is more evident khan the diver 



needs of the VU >n types, once 



they are realized as such. 



