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I90 The Century of the Child
sively, by strengthening the nervous system
and in that way strengthening the character.
This result comes about partly when all un-
necessary terrorising is avoided, partly when
children are accustomed to bear calmly and
quietly the inevitable unpleasantnesses of
danger.
Prof. Axel Key’s investigations on school
children have won international recognition.
In Sweden they have supphed the most sig-
nificant material up to the present time for
determining the mfluence of studies on physi-
cal development and the results of intellectual
overstrain.
It is to be hoped that when through em-
pirical investigation we begin to get acquainted
with the real nature of children, the school and
the home wiU be freed from absurd notions
about the character and needs of the child,
those absurd notions which now cause painful
cases of physical and psychical maltreatment,
still called by conscientious and thinking hu-
man beings in schools and in homes, education.
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