Youth and the Race
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The author of "Mind in the Making" has scored another triumph and has given us in "Youth and the Race" a psychologically truthful picture of the real boy. "The role which racial instincts play in the emotions, intellect, and will of children," says Professor Swift in his preface, "has been the subject of many investigations in recent years by those interested in the psychology of childhood. These studies, however, have had but slight effect upon the methods of the schools. This book
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