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theses founded on it reasonable, it follows that 

 any effort made to develop the moral and intel- 

 lectual capacities of young people should be 

 directed towards the efficient training, and nur- 

 ture of the nervous substance upon which the 

 manifestation of these faculties depend; to be 

 more precise, our efforts should be directed 

 towards developing the nervous instinctive 

 basic substance of the basal ganglia, and of the 

 association areas of the neopallium. 



The development of a child's character may 

 be conveniently considered, firstly, with refer- 

 ence to the training of his hereditary instinctive 

 qualities, which depend on work performed by 

 the nervous substance of his lower or spinal 

 system, including the basal ganglia (see Chap. 

 IV.); secondly, with reference to the develop- 

 ment of his intellectual powers, the result we 

 conceive of work performed by the higher or 

 association areas of his cerebral hemispheres 

 (Chaps. V. and VI.). It is, however, to be borne 

 in mind that when we refer to higher and lower 

 centres, these, together with all the other parts 

 of the central nervous system constitute a 

 single organ which in health work in unison. 



