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Updated: May 8, 2025
We have been making a study of the negro waiters. Perhaps cold weather affects them; but the first thing about them that strikes you is the apathetic infantine feeble-mindedness of the "colored persons" lately called niggers.
A tumor in the brain may completely change the personality; the bodily disease of certain convolutions in the brain brings with it the loss of the power of speech; paralysis of the brain dissolves the whole mental personality. Physical inhibition in the growth of the brain involves, on the mental side, feeble-mindedness and idiocy.
Feeble-mindedness, closely connected as it usually is with industrial inefficiency in the man, bad housekeeping in the woman, and lack of self-control in both, is of course, a potent factor in non-support and probably also in desertion. Faults in Early Training. To low ideals of home life and of personal obligation, which were imbibed in youth, can be traced much family irresponsibility.
Nothing is more clear to the investigator of this subject than that the one overwhelming cause for feeble-mindedness is feeble-mindedness in the parentage. There is one type of mental weakling, known as the Mongolian idiot, which may arise right out of the heart of an apparently sound family. But the number of these is comparatively small.
There is but one practical and feasible program in handling the great problem of the feeble-minded. That is, as the best authorities are agreed, to prevent the birth of those who would transmit imbecility to their descendants. Feeble-mindedness as investigations and statistics from every country indicate, is invariably associated with an abnormally high rate of fertility.
The figures yielded by this Oregon survey are also considerably lower than the average shown by the draft examination, a fact which indicates that they are not higher than might be obtained from other States. Organized charity is thus confronted with the problem of feeble-mindedness and mental defect.
While we may admire the patience and the deep human sympathy with which the great specialists in feeble-mindedness have expressed the hope of drying up the sources of this evil or of rendering it harmless, we should not permit sympathy or sentimentality to blind us to the fact that health and vitality and human growth likewise need cultivation.
As a matter of fact he probably did just what he intended to with his money it was perfectly consistent with everything he'd ever done in his life " "Well, you see, feeble-mindedness is a great deal like undue influence it implies that the property wasn't disposed of as originally intended. The most common ground is duress physical pressure." Anthony shook his head.
Among albinos every higher grade of pigmentation dominates all the lower grades in inheritance, and so apparently it is with mental development; the higher grades dominate the lower. At every point there appears to be agreement in method of inheritance between albinism and feeble-mindedness.
"You manage your composure too awkwardly. I see you wish to insult me," he cried to Gania. "You you are a cur!" He looked at Gania with an expression of malice. "What on earth is the matter with the boy? What phenomenal feeble-mindedness!" exclaimed Ferdishenko. "Oh, he's simply a fool," said Gania. Hippolyte braced himself up a little. He smiled feebly. "Have I troubled you, Evgenie Pavlovitch?"
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