i go Instinct and Intelligence 



means of developing his innate striving for 

 communion with a Being upon whose love and 

 tender care he unconsciously relies, and in 

 after-life transfers to a supremely wise and lov- 

 ing spirit his God. Reserve on the part of 

 parents, or on the other hand of children, is 

 often attributed to shyness, but in truth as a rule 

 depends on the play of a far more difficult in- 

 stinct to deal with successfully that is, pride. 

 It is, however, beyond our province to attempt 

 to enter into details concerning the training of 

 young children, the more so as it is within our 

 power to recommend to the reader an excellent 

 work on this subject written by Edith Reed 

 Mumford, under the title of The Dawn of 

 Character, a Study of Child Life. 1 



Having given the reasons which lead us to 

 conclude, that the basal ganglia constitute the 

 basic substance on the working of which instinc- 

 tive character or behaviour of an individual 

 mainly depends, we pass on to consider that 

 part of education which is principally con- 



1 M. A. Wood's book, Thoughts of the Training of Your 

 Children, is the result of five-and-twenty years' experience ; it 

 contains much valuable information on the subject and may be 

 highly recommended. 



