1 88 Instinct and Intelligence 



right in matters which reason fails to solve 

 correctly. 



As it is with the lower animals, so 

 also in the training of young children; it 

 should be commenced early in life that 

 is, when the child has reached his third 

 year of age and to be effective the nurse 

 or any other person entrusted with the care 

 of a child ought to possess an innate love for 

 children. Such a person would soon acquire, 

 from a child's ordinary behaviour, a fairly 

 accurate idea of his hereditary instinctive quali- 

 ties; this knowledge should be fortified by in- 

 formation on this subject derived from the 

 child's parents, and, if possible, supplemented 

 by an acquaintance with the elements of the 

 physiology of the central nervous system, such, 

 for instance, as that to be found in Huxley's 

 small work on this subject; the object being to 

 enable those entrusted with the training of a 

 young child's character to realise the nature of 

 the living matter with which he has to deal, and 

 the importance of employing appropriate stimuli 

 to his various sensory organs in order to develop 

 what is good and suppress any evil qualities 



