ABSTRACT
Throughout this book stress has been laid on the importance of society as the key educative influence in man. Man becomes man only when he is in society. Man isolated from society is an interesting fiction, but children brought up outside society are unlikely to be recognizably human. The wild boy treated by Itard mentioned in the first chapter, was such a child, and, as we have seen, the more removed children are from normal human company, the less adequately human they are likely to be.
