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Page 28 - The pursuance of future ends and the choice of means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the presence of mentality in a phenomenon.
Page 118 - A soldier writing home to his mother said: "I am writing this letter with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Page 37 - Feeble-minded persons; that is to say. persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to imbecility, yet so pronounced that they require care, supervision, and control for their own protection or for the protection of others, or. in the case of children, that they by reason of such defectiveness appear to be permanently incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools...
Page 178 - Writing arm too near body. (2) Thumb too stiff. (3) Point of nib too far from fingers. (4) Paper in wrong position. (5) Stroke in wrong direction.
Page 22 - Intelligence is a general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements : it is general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.
Page 37 - Imbeciles are persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so.
Page 168 - Write the letter T under every word like now or then that means something to do with time. Write the letter D under every word like here or north that means something about distance or direction or location.
Page 169 - Coleridge I see thee pine like her in golden story Who, in her prison, woke and saw, one day, The gates thrown open — saw the sunbeams play, With only a web 'tween her and summer's glory; Who, when that web — so frail, so transitory, It broke before her breath — had fallen away, Saw other webs and others rise for aye Which kept her prisoned till her hair was hoary. Those songs half-sung that yet were...
Page 37 - Idiots, that is to say, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age as to be unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers.
Page 88 - The blocks are placed in three piles on the table next to the upper edge of the board, no block in the pile nearest its recess, the lozenge and the elongated hexagon not in the same layer, and the star in the lower layer. This is the arrangement at the beginning of each of three trials. The child is introduced to the test with no instruction concerning it except, "Let us see how quickly you can put the blocks into place.