The Backward Child
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The causal factors of backwardness are submitted to close statistical treatment, with results which may distress too optimistic social theorists. ' The causes of backwardness prove unexpectedly numerous and varied : and in most cases not one cause, but several, are at work.' (p. 564.) But the chief cause of backwardness is naturally dull intelligence, a condition beyond remedy. Most teachers and clinic workers will readily accept this conclusion, and attempts at reform must consequently be concentrated
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