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tions regarding the necessity for patience on 

 the part of a trainer; he observes that it is 

 wrong "ever to hurry your young dogge, 

 give him time to fix himself and much 

 liberty of movement, handle him firmly but 

 tenderly." i 



It would be difficult to lay down in general 

 terms principles better adapted for the training 

 of a young child's instinctive powers than those 

 given by Markham for the training of pointers. 

 In other words, a system of education pursued 

 on these lines is calculated to develop and im- 

 prove the working of the nervous substance on 

 which the individual's character depends. 2 



If commenced in early childhood it is pos- 

 sible by careful training habitually to curb the 

 instinctive and emotional activities displayed 

 by young people. But teachers who have had 

 large experience in educating children, and who 

 have lived sufficiently long to see their pupils 

 grow up to middle age, assure us that children 

 whose character they had fondly hoped to have 



1 The Pointer and his Predecessors, by W. Arkwright, p. 154. 



2 This principle is applicable alike to individuals and to the 

 various races of men. Origin and Character of the British People, 

 by N. C. Macnamara. Also by the same author, The Evolution 

 of Purposive Matter, p. 191. 



