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certain analogies between the child and the 

 criminal. He considers that the germs of crim- 

 inality are met with, not by exception, but 

 normally in the early years of human life. As 

 in the embryo, there occur naturally certain 

 forms that will be monstrosities in the adult so 

 the child represents a man of undeveloped moral 

 strength. Lombroso places passion and venge- 

 fulness, vanity and cruelty in this comparison 

 between the child and the criminal. The great 

 criminologist certainly goes too far in exagger- 

 ating this analogy, but it may afford food for 

 serious thought and observation to those who 

 study and bring up children. Apparent cruelty, 

 sho^\Ti in a callousness to suffering, is often seen 

 in children, but is due more to ignorance and 

 lack of experience as to the meaning of pain 

 than to defective moral sensibility. 



The phenomenon of sex should be explained 

 to children as soon as they are old enough to 

 understand. By treating this subject in a mat- 

 ter-of-fact way, and stripping it of the unwhole- 

 some mystery so often surrounding the facts, 

 the child can readily comprehend all that is 



