Excerpt from The Principles of Mental Hygiene For many years a small group of philanthropically minded persons have been fighting the battles of the failures in life and trying to secure for them an adequate understanding which should be the basis for creating a new, a more enlightened, and a constructive and helpful program for dealing with them. Despite the length of time this movement in its various ramifications has been in existence, and the number of people who have been engaged in it, and, too, the high type of many so engaged, there never has issued from its sponsors anything that could properly be called a comprehensive program, an adequate statement of principles scientifically founded and practically workable. The reason for this seems to me clear. These persons had no such program, they had no such principles, their moving force was faith. Many, perhaps all, great movements, are thus shadowed forth in their origins by the faith that is in those who believe in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Principles of Mental Hygiene Applied to the Management of Children Predisposed to Nervousness While emphasis is thus laid upon suitable bodily exercise for children predisposed to nervousness a warning should be sounded against excesses in sports like tennis, foot ball, basket-ball and other games in which there is Opportunity for competition or rivalry. Over-ambition in these directions is often most harmful both to the body and to the mind of the child and should be especially avoided where there is any neuropathic taint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.