20 HEREDITY. 



ogy of the brain and the demonstrable powers of 

 the subjective mind, is fast taking the place of 

 ,the speculative philosophy of pedagogy, and af- 

 fords not only a definite science of mind, but re- 

 Heredity is a liable methods for brain building and soul 

 Science. growth. Heredity is no longer a myth of the 



nursery or a theory to account for certain phe- 

 nomena in nature, but an established fact; a 

 science that needs only to be studied and applied 

 in the light of the new psychology to make it a 

 most potent factor in solving the problems of 

 human progress and redeeming the race from 

 vice and crime. 



Within half a century the study of heredity 

 and psychology will have revolutionised our 

 methods of teaching, juvenile government, crimi- 

 nal law, sociology and religion. 



The purpose of the present treatise is : ( i ) 

 to reduce the known laws and facts, of heredity 

 Objects in View, to a definite science and give a concise statement 

 of its several factors; (2) to explain the relation 

 of heredity to the physical, mental and moral life 

 of man, and indicate the power of prenatal influ- 

 ences for good or evil ; ( 3 ) to show how the great 

 social evils of the country exert an ante-natal in- 

 fluence upon children and produce in them nat- 

 ural tendencies toward vice and crime; (4) to 

 explain heredity and prenatal culture in the light 

 of the new psychology and the facts of maternal 

 A Child of Li ht i m P ress i ns > an d offer such suggestions as will 

 'enable parents to apply these laws to the im- 

 provement of their offspring; (5) to give such 

 directions for physical culture, brain building and 

 soul growth as are calculated to enable parents 



