The Memory of the Feeble-Minded
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Some modern writers on mental deficiency regard the feeble-minded as a class that has some one mental defect in common, varying in degree only. This simple conception is perhaps due to the tendency of late years to emphasise the quantitative aspect of mental deficiency and to neglect qualitative distinctions. But teachers, psychologists, and medical officers, who deal with the practical problems which the mentally defective present, are more impressed by the diversity than by the uniformity of mental types. When dealing with defectives individually it is, to say the least, as helpful to think in terms of
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