Man's Supreme Inheritance; Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization
by Frederick Matthias Alexander
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Author: Frederick Matthias AlexanderEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2012-01-12
ISBN: 0217506321
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: General Books LLC
Summary of Man's Supreme Inheritance; Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VII Race Culture And The Training Of The Children "In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilise those sources of happiness which nature supplies,--how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage; how to live completely? And this being the great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge."--Herbert Spencer, Education. Every child is born into the world with a predisposition to certain habits, and furthermore, the child of to-day is not born with the same development of instinct that was the congenital heritage of its ancestors a hundred or even fifty years ago.' Many modern children, for example, are born with recognisable physical disadvantages that are the direct result of the gradually deteriorating respiratory and vital functioning of their forbears. For many months, the period varying with the sex and ability of the individual, the vital processes and movements are for all practical purposes independent of any conscious control, and the human infant remains in this helpless, dependent condition much longer than any other animal. The habits which the child evidences during this protracted period are those hereditary predispositions which are early developed by circumstance and environment, habits of muscular uses, of vital functioning, and of adaptability. If it were possible to analyse the tendencies of a child when it is, say, twelve months old, we could soon master the science of heredity which is at present so tentative and uncertain in its deductions, but the child's pot...Psychology & Counseling Books
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