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The old familiar sheet of white paper on which the educator had to write, or the soft piece of wax on which he had to leave his impression, has for ever disappeared, and we know now that we have a very much more complex problem to deal with. Within the child forces of heredity are evr struggling, and powerful predispositions already exist before he comes under the educator's influence. According to Galton's law, instead of the sheet of white paper or the piece of soft wax, we have to deal with a very remarkable product, of which each parent contributes on an average one quarter, each grandparent one-sixteenth, and so on; and generally the occupier of each ancestral place in the nth degree, whatever be the value of n, contributes o'5 (2n) of the heritage. How far this law of Galton's approximates on average to the truth it is impossible to say; but individual variations are so great that in any case it is practically impossible to calculate, with any approach to certainty, the predispositions of a child from a knowledge of his ancestors. The problem is still further complicated by the shaping influences of social environment, which are also to a large extent beyond the educator's control. The very evident result of a knowledge of the complexity of the problem with which we have to deal is to force us to the conclusion that, in the early stages, at any rate, of the child's education, the child must give the lead, that we must be ever on the look-out for what are termed the instinct propulsions of the child, that we must foster and develop with the greatest care those instincts which we wish to foster, and repress bad instincts by a |