ABSTRACT
The greatest problem of life is being solved during adolescence. The mind and brain are striving after perfection, and heredity is undoubtedly the most important factor that affects those subtle developmental processes. The first thing a rational parent, a wise doctor, and a reasonable advanced adolescent himself should do, is to look the question of heredity fair in the face and try to find out all the facts about it. Truthfulness is seldom practised in admitting facts about bad heredity, or mental diseases, or defects. A very striking fact it is, as living organisms, may thus carry within us tendencies, instead of actual observable features, mere potentialities, instead of facts. One of the practices much in vogue in the higher schools and in colleges is that of the competition of one scholar with another through the "examination system," Sometimes this competition is terrific.
