Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall.

  • Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-1942.
Date:
[1912]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    21/74 (page 15)
    HOW NATURE WORKS IN A BOY T about the fifteenth year of his age, the average boy begins to develop into manhood. There is a rapid growth of his framework, of his muscles, of his lungs, heart and digestive system. There is an equally rapid development of his mental powers. He sees things differently. Nature is building a home-builder. Nature is equip- ping the young man with powers which will enable him to establish a home and to support and protect the inmates of that home. These physical and mental changes are the most apparent ones, and far the most im- portant. Incidental changes are the growth of the beard, and the change of voice. Biologists and physiologists have for decades been seeking the immediate cause of these profound changes. Their investigations have been finally rewarded in the recent discovery that these profound and far-reaching changes [^5]