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... Amount of brain power . Spontaneous action of nerve - centres . A nerve - centre free , or highly stimulated . A disobedient boy . The hand free for observation . How to observe the brain . Postures , or attitudes . Theory of postures ...
... Amount of brain power . Spontaneous action of nerve - centres . A nerve - centre free , or highly stimulated . A disobedient boy . The hand free for observation . How to observe the brain . Postures , or attitudes . Theory of postures ...
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... amount ; this appears to be due to inherited antecedent impressions , but the tendency may be altered in succeeding generations . Cultivation and training may increase capacity for action in an indi- capacity . vidual , as well as in a ...
... amount ; this appears to be due to inherited antecedent impressions , but the tendency may be altered in succeeding generations . Cultivation and training may increase capacity for action in an indi- capacity . vidual , as well as in a ...
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... amount of stimulation , up to a certain amount . When growth in a child is deficient from want of food , feeding may be a most potent factor in augmenting the capacity for action . When feeding has been sufficient and stimula- tion or ...
... amount of stimulation , up to a certain amount . When growth in a child is deficient from want of food , feeding may be a most potent factor in augmenting the capacity for action . When feeding has been sufficient and stimula- tion or ...
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... amount . Nature guides thinking . In the infant , before birth , conditions of development occur which cannot proceed after birth , e.g. closure of certain openings and fissures . An ovule of the flower is a cellular body , it has but a ...
... amount . Nature guides thinking . In the infant , before birth , conditions of development occur which cannot proceed after birth , e.g. closure of certain openings and fissures . An ovule of the flower is a cellular body , it has but a ...
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... amount of force , there is but low capacity for mental and nerve - muscular action . A nerve- centre must be well supplied with good blood in order that it may be apt for action , and clearly impressionable to stimulation from without ...
... amount of force , there is but low capacity for mental and nerve - muscular action . A nerve- centre must be well supplied with good blood in order that it may be apt for action , and clearly impressionable to stimulation from without ...
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