Excerpt from Feeble-Mindedness Its Causes and Consequences This book is in the nature of a report on work done at the Vineland Research Laboratory during the past five years in an attempt to discover the causes of the feeble-mindedness of the children in the Institution. No attempt has been made to treat exhaustively any of the topics that have come up for consideration. The report is far from complete. Our cases are still being studied and the data are so incomplete in many ways that one is tempted to withhold publication until the results of other studies now in progress could be added. Such a procedure would have given a more satisfactory product. But in view of the great popular interest in these topics and the demand for information, we have put aside personal preferences and prepared what data we had in as available form as we could. The 327 cases here presented constitute a unitary group. They have not been selected; they are of all ages and grades of defect.

They include every case that was investigated, and every child whose home was in New Jersey or near by was investigated. Only those were omitted whose homes were so far away that the cost of travel for our field-workers was prohibitive. We have included in this book all the cases, so that the reader might see the entire group on which our statistics are based. Another reason for including them is because it is believed that other students with other interests will find in this material much that we have made no attempt to use. In this way the data may have a value beyond anything we ourselves have deduced from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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