11. Because when one acts without anger one has thought beforehand, and is more to blame; while, on the other hand, it is an act of passion, and afterwards one regrets what one has done.
12. I would say that it would be necessary to know him first and then afterwards to judge him, not to say anything bad or good about him without knowing him.
13. Because there are people who say words and often do not do them.
Here are some replies which are mediocre or absurd:
12. You should try to ask the particulars of the person you do not know. (Mediocre.)
13. Because his acts are more terrible while his words are less threatening. (Mediocre.)
11. Because the action which has been done in anger is not so violent. (Mediocre.)
13. Because you must not speak after the person who speaks. (Absurd.)
In a class of defectives of eleven years of age we obtained from seven children an average of replies equal to 1.3. This figure, therefore, is considerably less than that of the normal children regular in their studies, and even than that of the normal with a retardation of two years. Let us note in passing a very curious fact. We had had to examine these defectives before their admission into the special class. Now, the teachers sent us as defective two children who were clearly intelligent, for one of them obtained five marks and the other eight. Let us give the replies of the latter, whose name was Cler, age eleven years:
10. You would have to think. (Good.)