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Hadley
The author of “How to Influence Men” purposes in this new edition of “Youth and the Race” to help parents understand their children after they have passed the age of ten. This is a creditable purpose and the average parent appreciates the need of some assistance. However it is an insult to his intelligence to read about “the instinctive fear of wild animals “(p. 7) when there is a more or less easily observed ontogenetic basis. And, then, instead of some irresistible influence of racial heritage being seen in the play of his children one is more apt to have observed some reflection of his own adult striving. Be that as it may, if the parent—reader can survive such revelations about his ten—year—old as “Primitive impulses are still rampant” (p.29), he may be able to gain something from the quotations about pupil—government in the subsequent chapters. The capability and insight of children should be instructive to those who have attempted to manage them, usually through fear. The factual material collated here from various sources is self—explanatory; but the rest of the book remains as a monumental evidence to the author's lack of knowledge about psychology.