PREFACE 



THE meaning of the term Education is " to 

 draw out what is in a child " ; it therefore in- 

 cludes the training of his inherited instinctive 

 disposition or character, as well as the " putting 

 in" needful knowledge, or the "instruction" 

 of his intellectual faculties. Educationists of 

 the present time appear to exaggerate the im- 

 portance of training the intellect, and are apt 

 to overlook the fact that each individual pos- 

 sesses certain instinctive qualities which to a 

 large extent determine his behaviour through- 

 out life. These qualities, which no human 

 power can eradicate, mayy however, be favour- 

 ably modified by appropriate training. 

 v\\ In the following pages we have endeavoured 

 to give an outline of the evidence, and the 

 reasons upon which we rely to prove that the 

 instinctive behaviour of human beings depends 



