The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHILD AND THE RACE.

METHODS AND PROCESSES.

BY
JAMES MARK BALDWIN, M.A., Ph.D.

Stuart Professor of Psychology in Princeton University; Author of "Handbook of Psychology," "Elements of Psychology"; Co-Editor of "The Psychological Review."

WITH SEVENTEEN FIGURES AND TEN TABLES.

SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

Price $2.60, net.

NOTICES.

"The great problem of the evolution of mind has received many notable contributions towards its solution of late years. We question, however, if there are any which, in time to come, will occupy a higher place than the work now before us. This it owes partly to its subject, partly to its treatment. Mr. Baldwin with rare skill has traced the thread of development from individuals to races, and has shown how the element of heredity plays a much larger part than is supposed in the economy of mental evolution…. The book is evidently the result of years of close observation and study. Its method is admirable, the induction is broad and reliable, while the conclusions drawn in most cases are both rigorously logical and avoid even the suspicion of exaggeration. We predict a high place in the annals of biological science will yet be assigned to this admirable work."—The Liberal.

"It is a most valuable contribution to biological psychology, which is a field of modern naturalism in which few have labored."—The Critic.

"'Mental Development' must be regarded as an epoch-making book: it suggests a new field for experiments and observations, and throws down the gauntlet to existing theories of mental growth."—The Churchman.

"It is of the greatest value and importance."—The Outlook.

"The author emphasizes the motor elements in mental evolution, and thus introduces into psychogenesis a point of view which is eminently characteristic of modern psychology…. This summary sketch can give no idea of the variety of topics which Professor Baldwin handles or of the originality with which the central thesis is worked out. No psychologist can afford to neglect the book, and its second part will be eagerly expected."—PROF. TITCHENER, Cornell University.