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standing of the laws of heredity and the operation of environment, mold the minds 
and the careers of our children almost at will. 
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you now in twelve. 
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SOME SENTENCE EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION 
The supreme test of a book is not what its author thinks of it — not what its 
publisher thinks of it; the supreme test is what the actual reader, himself, thinks 
of it — the reader who, having paid his money, must judge the result of his pur- 
chase purely by the satisfaction it has produced. It is impossible, here, to give 
more than a bare suggestion of what the readers of the Burbank Books have said, 
since the number of expressions of opinion runs well into the thousands. The 
sentence excerpts reproduced on the following pages, however, will be found to 
have come from workers in practically every line of the world's activity — and 
they may be taken as a true average of the impression which these books have 
created in the minds of their purchasers. 
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