MENTAL DEVELOPMENT 



IN 



THE CHILD AND THE RACE. 



BY 



JAMES MARK BALDWIN, M.A,, Ph.D., 



With Seventeen Figures and Ten Tables. 8vo. pp. xvi, 496. Cloth. 

 Price, $2.60. 



Second Reprint of Second Edition, 1898. 



Translated Into French and German. 



FROM THE PRESS. 



" It is of the greatest value and importance." — T/ic Outlook, 



"A most valuable contribution to biological psychology." — The Critic. 



" Baldwin's book is certainly the most important work which has appeared on 

 genetic psychology since those of Spencer and Romanes ; it has equal value for the 

 psychologist and the biologist." — L. Marillier in Antice Biologique. 



" Considering all that Baldwin has brought to light in this remarkable book, we 

 have to say that it marks a turning-point in the development of physiological psy- 

 chology." — E. Reich in the Rundschau, 



"This summary sketch can give no idea of the variety of topics which Professor 

 Baldwin handles, or of the originality with which his central thesis is worked out. 

 No psychologist can afford to neglect the book." — The Dial, 



" Baldwin's gebiihrt das Gedicnst zuerst die Vorarbeiten zusammengefasst und 

 in engen zusammenhang mit der physiologischen Psychologic des Erwachsenen 

 eine physiologische Psychologic des kindes versucht zu haben. Der Versuch ist 

 gelungen." — Th. ZieI£EN, in Preface to German translation. 



" A book . . . treating of a subject fraught with significant revelations for every 

 branch of educational science is Professor J. Mark Baldwin's treatise on Mental 

 Development in ' The Child and the Race.' Professor Baldwin's work is compara- 

 tively untechnical in character and written in a terse and vigorous style, so that it 

 will commend itself to unprofessional readers. Having been led by his studies and 

 experiments with his two little daughters to a profound appreciation of the genetic 

 function of imitation, he has sought to work out a theory of mental development in 

 the child incorporating this new insight. A clear understanding of the mental de- 

 velopment of the individual child necessitates a doctrine of the race development 

 of consciousness — the great problem of the evolution of mind. Accordingly Pro- 

 fessor Baldwin has endeavored to link together the current biological theory of 

 organic adaptation with the doctrine of the infant's development as that has been 

 fashioned by his own wide, special researches. Readers will understand the import 

 of a theory which seeks to unite and explain one by the other the psychological 

 aspects of ontogenesis and phylogenesis. As Professor Baldwin says, it is the 

 problem of Spencer and Romanes attacked from a new and fruitful point of view. 

 There is no one but can be interested in the numerous and valuable results which 

 Professor Baldwin has recorded; teachers, parents, and psychologists alike will 

 find in his work a wealth of suggestive matter." — The Open Court, 



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