John Franklin Bobbitt
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 46
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Excerpt from The Growth of Philippine Children, Vol. 16: A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Clark University, Worcester, Mass;, In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and Accepted on the Recommendation of G. Stanley Hall Child Study to date has occupied itself almost exclusively with children of the white races, and anthropology has been concerned chiefly with adults. Both of these fields of research have become widely extended, but neither has yet seriously undertaken the study of the children of the various colored races. This remains an almost untouched field. If one wishes to obtain exact data with reference to the physical or mental capabilities of the children of any race other than the white, there is scarcely a study to which one can refer with confidence. In the writings of travellers, explorers, teachers, and missionaries, one finds numerous opinions as to the children. Anthropologists have in many cases made a few measurements and tests upon children, perhaps a half dozen in a tribe. The opinions, however, are too casual and conflicting, and the measurements too few and inexact as to age and other conditions, to be of great service in estimating either the physical or the mental efficiency of the children observed. The chief exceptions are a few studies made by the Japanese, and the recently-published elaborate study of Ales Hrdlicka upon the Indians of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. To take a concrete case illustrative of our uncertainty in this field, it is usually assumed and frequently asserted that the children of the Tropics develop more rapidly and mature earlier than the children of colder lands. It is at present difficult either to prove or to disprove the statement, owing to the dearth of exact statistical data. 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.