INDEX

Adenoids, and delinquency, 27; and laziness, 173–174.

Ampère, A., 84.

Baby talk, dangers of, 49–51, 136.

Bain, A., 199.

Balzac, H. de, 99, 166–167.

Berle, A. A., 49–50, 136.

Bidder, G., 84.

Binet, A., 62.

Boccacio, 99.

Brady, J. G., 16–18.

Bruns, Doctor, 241–242.

Burke, A. H., 15–16.

Buxton, J., 84, 85.

Chabaneix, P., 89.

Childhood, impressionability of, 30–35, 41–45, 60–63; mental activity in, 163–164; hysteria in, 221–245; results of fear in, 258–274.

Children’s Aid Society, 13–18.

Cicero, 106.

Colburn, Z., 82–84.

Coleridge, S. T., 78.

Colours, psychology of, 57–59.

Condillac, 79.

Coriat, I. H., 255–256, 266–268.

Coulter, E. K., 11.

Dante, 88, 99.

Darwin, C., 91, 165, 168, 180–183, 186, 201, 203, 250.

Dase, Z., 84.

Davy, H., 166.

Delinquency, chief factors in, 5–19; physical defects and, 19–27, 162.

Dental defects, and delinquency, 22–27; and laziness, 174–176.

Diderot, D., 89.

Dreams, and genius, 75–81; and disease, 260, 265, 267–268, 270–272.

Dubois, P., 28, 285.

Dugdale, R. L., 7, 10.

Education, suggestion in, 39–68; importance of early, 67–68, 114–117; instances of early, 119–157; helps in early, 286–289.

Eliot, C. W., 64–65.

Ellis, H., 57, 106.

Environment, and crime, 5–19; and ill-health, 52–55; and mental development, 60, 109, 136–137; and hysteria, 232–234; and general welfare, 283–284.

Eugenics, 5–6.

Eye trouble, and delinquency, 21–23; and laziness, 177–178.

Fear, function of, 250; abnormal, 251–256; as cause of nervous diseases, 257–274.

Fénelon, 106.

Fleury., M. de, 179, 183–185.

Franklin, B., 79.

Galileo, 91, 106.

Gauss, K., 84.

Genius, contrasting theories of, 71–75; and dreams, 75–81; the subconscious in, 86–94; and hard work, 95–101; interest and, 102; precocity of, 105–107; longevity of, 107–108.

Goethe, 87–88.

Gourmont, R. de, 89.

Habits, formation of, 42–43.

Hall, G. S., 196, 213.

Hallam, H., 106.

Hecht, D’O., 227–229.

Heine, H., 165.

Henry, P., 166.

Heredity, and delinquency, 5–19; and genius, 71; and hysteria, 264.

Heyne, C. G., 142.

Hobbes, T., 105–106, 198–199.

Holmes, A., 24.

Hysteria, in childhood, 221–247; characteristics of, 231–234; treatment, 237–243, 261, 269; prevention, 243–246, 274–278; as result of fear, 251–274.

Inaudi, J., 84.

Indy, V. d’, 89.

Interest, and intellectual development, 102–105; and longevity, 108; as antidote to laziness, 183–189.

Janet, P., 235, 273.

Johnson, S., 166.

Juke family, 6–11.

Keller, H., 32–34.

Kelvin, Lord, education of, 119–126.

King, E., 121.

Kirk, E. C., 23.

Lamartine, A., 88.

Lange, C. G., 197.

Languages, teaching foreign, 138–140.

Laughter, abnormal, 196–197; Hobbes’s theory, 198–199; Bain’s theory, 199; Spencer’s theory, 201; Mélinaud’s theory, 202; Bergson’s theory, 203–208; problem re-stated, 209–210; in childhood, 210–215; function of, 212–216; importance to parents, 217–218.

Laziness, contrasting theories of, 162–168; a pathological condition, 168–169; physical defects and, 172–178; treatment, 179–186; prevention, 187–189.

Left-handedness, 43–45.

Lightning calculators, 82–86.

Lombroso, C., 8, 71.

Lowell, J. R., 166.

Lyell, C., 165, 168.

Mangiamele, V., 84.

Mélinaud, C., 201–202.

Mill, J. S., education of, 126–132.

Minto, W., 131–132.

Mitchell, J. J., 276–277.

Mondeux, H., 84.

Montessori, M., 287.

Moral training, Witte’s method of, 145–152.

Mosso, A., 278.

Mozart, 89, 100–101.

Myers, F. W. H., 72, 74.

Napoleon, 90, 100, 105.

Newton, I., 90–91, 101.

Parsons, F. A., 53–54.

Perez, B., 43.

Phobias, 251–256, 261–263, 278.

Poltergeist, 223–227, 233–234.

Preyer, W., 214, 230.

Prince, M., 258–261.

Public school system, criticisms of, 64–66.

Ribot, T., 172.

Rousseau, J. J., 289–290.

Safford, T., 84.

Schiller, 88, 101.

Schoff, H. K., 12.

Sidis, B., 115, 208 n, 260–261, 269–272.

Shinn, M., 210, 214.

Stevenson, R. L., 79–81, 96–98.

Subconscious, nature of the, 73; memory, 31–35; perception, 40–41; in sleep, 75–81; in lightning calculation, 84–85; in genius, 86–94; in hysteria, 233.

Suggestion, characteristics of, 39, 41; in child training, 45–51; experiments in, 40–41, 61–63; in treatment of laziness, 185; as cause of hysteria, 231–234; in treatment of hysteria, 237–242, 261.

Sully, J., 214.

Swift, E. J., 165, 174.

Tartini, G., 78–79.

Thorndike, E. L., 102–104.

Upson, H. S., 26.

Voltaire, 89.

Waldstein, L., 32, 34, 43–44.

Wallace, A. R., 91–94.

Wallin, J. E. W., 175.

Westlake, E., 224–226.

Wickstead, P. H., 154–155.

Wiener, L., 137 and n.

Witmer, L., 19–22, 65.

Witte, K., education of, 133–153; career of, 154–157.

Wordsworth, W., 165.