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right-handed." So well fixed by this time was the habit of throwing with the right hand that the left hand was not used even when the ball was picked up with the left hand, the ball being changed to the right hand before it was thrown. We shall not follow the record through month by month for it only repeats and illustrates what has been stated already. By the end of the second year the child was decidedly right handed, and has been so ever since.[1]
- ↑ As one watches the child now (forty-fourth month), so strongly right-handed, one often wonders what would have resulted if he had been allowed to continue without interference or training on the line he set out in the twelfth month. Would he have become as decidedly left handed as he is now right? Other questions which arise in this connection are whether children are natively either right or left-handed which no amount of training can change; or whether it is a matter of training; or are some or all children naturally ambidextrous, but will develop right or left-handedness under training?…The whole matter of right and left-handedness should have much wider study than it has so far received. See Professor Baldwin's Mental Development, Vol. I, Chap. IV for interesting data, references to literature, and a critical discussion of the theories relating to the origin of right-handedness.
