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daily growth of his child-playmate, and so 

 laying foundations for that great science of 

 mental embryology still best known by its 

 fit and homely name of child-study? A 

 naturalist, too, has a respect for embryology : 

 let him, then, take as guide the foremost 

 of American mind-embryoloffists, Pr^jHe.nt. 

 Stanley HalL (see the American Darwin Cen- 

 tennial volume, " Fifty Years of Darwinism") , 

 who after creating a very paradise for the 

 guild of brass instruments, and long and lead- 

 ing services to child-study, has of later years 

 applied himself to the no less fruitful and 

 perhaps even more important field of Ado- 

 l^gcence: that magic Dionysiac moment of 

 human metamorphosis, in whiVh ^yisdom and 

 frill naHnrais and Pni t.nvp fo 



frpm within the, js r snes of 



maturing life, in^ passion o_r apathy, 

 vicp x social h service,or crime, health 



CIT insanity. For him as for Darwin "the 

 soul of man is no whit less the 



fs his body. Our psychic 



powers are new dispensations of theirs. The 

 ; ascending series of gradations is no more 

 broken for the psyche than for the soma." 

 Following Darwin still, his "method is always 

 and everywhere objective and observational, 

 never subjective or introspective. , . . Tbe 

 iiltimfl.t.ft knowlp.Hp'fr of nnr psyqhe is 



