Excerpt from Composition in the Elementary Schools He is a sort of re ex machine. What he feels he makes known; as soon as he can talk, he tells all he knows. If he is happy, he laughs; if he is sad, he cries. Only older folks learn to inhibit their thoughts and to conceal what goes on in the heart and brain. In other words; man is a reacting organism, and ex pression is the reactive phase of mental life. It is the only evidence we have that there is mental life, and is the sole measure of a man's power and useful ness in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."