Insanity: its causes and prevention / by Henry Putnam Stearns.

  • Stearns, Henry Putnam, 1828-1905.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Insanity: its causes and prevention / by Henry Putnam Stearns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER VI. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. TAGS Occupations of persons admitted to State asylums—Percentage of those having no education in industry, or regular occupation —Importance of industrial education to the brain—Difficulty of obtaining it greater than formerly—Education of the brain has taken the place of industrial education, and with unfavor- able results—The education of the schools does not qualify the mass of people to earn a living : it tends rather to unfit them for industrial labor—The interests of society require that the largest number be educated to be self-supporting—To secure this it is necessary to begin early in life—The same principles apply to education for domestic labor 95 CHAPTER VII. MORAL EDUCATION. Examples of deficient moral education—It more especially per- tains to the influence of home and relates to obedience—Respect and obedience toward persons in authority essential to any effi- cient system—This must be learned in early life if at all—Self- control essential to the growth of mental strength and discipline —The tendencies in the modes of home and school education 115 CHAPTER VIII. HEREDITY. Its importance as a factor in causing physical and mental charac- teristics in families and nations—-Illustrations—Tendencies to morbid action, both mental and physical, may also be trans- mitted—Insanity—Dipsomania—How may unfavorable ten- dencies be avoided ?—The influence of heredity acts toward elimination of unfavorable tendencies when existing on one side of the family—Importance of understanding this in relation to marriage—Education may do much toward aiding in the removal of unfavorable tendencies—Weak-minded children—Those born with peculiarities of physical and mental constitutions . . 125