And as the figures which I have given show that precocity and relapse are even more frequent for minor offences than for crimes, he thinks that they contradict instead of confirming my conclusions.
To these numerical data may be added others of a qualificative character, showing that precocity is most frequent in respect of the natural crimes and offences which are usually observed amongst born and habitual criminals.
Sidenote: Moral Precocity] Lest these directions should seem to demand an almost superhuman degree of control and wisdom on the part of the mother, remember that moral precocity is as much to be guarded against a mental precocity.
Precocity in a child, therefore, is a thing to be deplored.
Change of heart before pubescent years, there are several scientific reasons for thinking meansprecocity and forcing.
This is, perhaps, the best physiological characterization of precocity and issues in excessive nervous and muscular irritability.
It was more probably written when he was twelve or fourteen, as he showed at nine none of the signs of precocity which such a composition indicates.
The ordinary period of female maturity is astonishingly late when compared with the lower animals of the same size, particularly when viewed with cases of animal precocity on record.
In some cases this precocity seems to be hereditary, being transmitted from mother to daughter, bringing about an almost incredible state of affairs, in which a girl is a grandmother about the ordinary age of maternity.
He was well received everywhere, for his scientific precocityexcited general interest.
He was educated at the parish school, and evidenced precocity by essaying composition in his twelfth year.
Unusual Precocity in Children usually the Result of a Diseased Brain.
Doesn't this exceed any English story of the precocity of American children?
An instance of precocity was the attempted abduction in May, 1851, of a girl of thirteen by two boys a little older.
It is needless to say that such schools cannot cure a pathological sexual hereditary mneme, whether it consists in perversion, precocity or some other vice.
In this case onanism is produced spontaneously as the result of psycho-sexual precocityor hereditary pathological satyriasis.
Among boys we observe analogous differences in the intensity and precocity of the sexual appetite.
It is comparatively a recent sort, and seems to be desirable rather for its precocity and excellent quality than for its size or productiveness.
The young pods are tender, and well flavored; but its remarkable precocity must be considered its chief recommendation.
What advice would you give aboutprecocity in children?
This is one thing we must bear in mind: precocity is the worst foe of a sound education.
The forcing system has been by many given up, and precocity is discouraged.
Already most people recognise the detrimental results of intellectual precocity; but there remains to be recognised the fact that moralprecocity also has detrimental results.
This reply of Alexander has been noticed, by various historians, as an uncommon instance of the precocity of the Royal intellect.
This, however, would imply a precocity of stature and strength, and a maturity of judgment too miraculous not to be dwelt on at greater length by those early writers who have handed down his story.
Travellers from many regions comment, now on the greatprecocity of children among savage and semi-civilized peoples, and now on the early arrest of their mental progress.
The most remarkable case of childish precocity given by Mrs. Earle was that of Richard Evelyn, who died in 1658 at the early age of five years and three days.
The precocityof colonial marriage allowed time for repetitions of the act.
The Bible was read through many times by the young and much precocity in religious things was developed.
Precocity is sometimes a symptom of disease rather than of intellectual vigour.
Many artists have been precocious, but without diligence their precocity would have come to nothing.
Notwithstanding the many undeniable instances of the precocity of men of genius, it is nevertheless true that early cleverness gives no indication of the height to which the grown man will reach.
Spoiled by the precocity of her fortune, yet careless as to its retention, she had allowed two rivals to dispute the king's heart.
It should be noted that sexual precocity or vice retards the development of puberty, while healthful psychic stimuli are favourable to it.
In order to show that the inferiority of a species is in proportion to its precocity in attaining fixed characteristics, Rosa conceived the following striking comparison.
The sexual precocity indicated by early and excessive masturbation doubtless sometimes reveals an organism already predisposed to homosexuality.
I think it may further be said that sexual precocity tends to encourage the inverted habit where it exists.
In this connection I may quote an observation by Raffalovich: "It is natural that the invert should very clearly recall the precocity of his inclinations.
It is a fact of considerable interest and significance that in so large a number of my cases there was distinct precocity of the sexual emotions, both on the physical and psychic sides.
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