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Foreword
- That maladjustment can be, and in many instances is being, eliminated by efficient education plus wise remedial legislation.
- That the vast majority of children are born normal and are made abnormal, degenerate, and diseased by their defective environment.
- That recent investigations demonstrate conclusively that the proportion of genius, mediocrity, and defect does not vary materially
from one social class to another, and hence all are capable of the same uplift.
- That progress is impossible so long as society maintains the fatalistic viewpoint which condemns men because of the sins of the fathers and is blind to the transgressions of the brothers.
- And finally, that it is through the promulgation of the new view of the universality of human capacity, the remediability of maladjustment, and the advantages of universalized opportunity, that maladjustment will eventually be eliminated and adjustment secured.
Could this book succeed but a little in showing that old things are often old only because they are traditional, or, conversely, that in the evolution of new things lies social salvation; that the "submerged tenth" is submerged because of ignorance and low
