xiv CONTENTS. 



Is Imperative A Mother's Thief Who Is to Blame The Social Feelings 

 Why Children Are Bashful Self-Consciousness The Doors of Knowl- 

 edge Shaping the Intellectual Tendencies A Mathematical Child 

 Mental Activity A Noteworthy Fact What to Read Bad Literature A 

 Novel-Reading Preacher's Fate Epidemics of Crime Juvenile Offenders- 

 Heredity vs. Environment Vicious Impressions Reading for Prenatal 

 Culture Companionship in Study Unstudious Mothers Stupid Children. 

 The Esthetic Faculties Weak Qualities Overcome Special Genius 

 Picture Impressions A Second Edison Dormant Powers Not Transmitted 

 Musical Talent Lost A Strange Contradiction The Aspiring Senti- 

 ments Overcoming Sensitiveness Maternity Is Divine A Queenly Mis- 

 sion Reason, Intuition and Imagination Importance of Mirthfulness A 

 Good Medicine Smiles vs. Frowns Rejoice and Be Glad A Child of 

 Joy Influencing the Moral Sentiments Religious Tendencies May Be 

 Transmitted Ordained from Birth Born Preachers Dedicated to God's 

 Service Her Boy Would Preach Ministers' Sons Are Superior Opposing 

 Factors Nominal Christians Christianity Defined Love Will Beget Its 

 Own Pass've Sentiments Are Not Potential The Most Active Powers 

 Control Worldly Children Spiritual Growth Requires Solitude Enter- 

 ing the Silence Spiritual Communion Suggestions for Strengthening the 

 Religious Nature. 



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Birth Marks Physical Evidences Birth Marks a Fact Dr. Fearn's 

 Opinions Dr. Jordan's Views Weismann Osborn and Fairfield Ridi- 

 cule vs. Argument One Scientist's Opinion Academic Nonsense The 

 True Scientist Abnormal Impressions Frightened by a Dog A Bean 

 Mark Goes on Tip-toe Frightened by a Drunkard A Clownish Child 

 A Desirable Mark The Lily of the Valley A Child's Profanity The 

 Materialist's Dilemma Psychic Power Undeniable Maternal Impressions 

 Explained The Soul Governs Development Rapport Between Mother 

 and Child The Law of a Suggestion Lodging a Suggestion Suscepti- 

 bility to Impressions Prenatal Individuality Periods of Greatest Sus- 

 ceptibility Only Repeated Suggestions Effectual Prevention of Abnor- 

 malities Self-Control Essential The Soul Should Be Free Faith in 

 Nature's God Opposing Evil Influences Prenatal Suggestions Impres- 

 sions May Be Controlled A Short Cut to Genius Sudden Impressions 

 Seldom Effectual Repeated Suggestions Required Abnormalities Out- 

 grown Nature Maintains the Normal Experimental Psychology Normal 

 Growth Requires Time Results of Hypnotic Control Mental Stimula- 

 tion Silent Suggestion Control During Sleep Hypnotism Practically 

 Applied Dangers in Hypnotism Hypnotism Prenatally Applied A 

 Father's Experiments Resemblance to the Unrelated Possibilities of 

 Motherhood The Hope of Science. 



PART III. THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



XVIIL HEREDITY, INSANITY AND IMBECILITY 267278 



Increase of Degenerates Crime in Europe Crime in the United 

 States A Grave Problem Education and Crime Religious Training 

 Prison Reports Percentage of Illiteracy Heredity vs. Postnatal Influ- 

 ences A Tangled Skein Number of Idiotic and Epileptic Heredity vs. 

 Feeble-Mindedness Statistics of the Feeble-Minded Morbid Heredity 



