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Title: The Unfolding Life

Author: Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

Release Date: September 26, 2004 [eBook #13533]

Language: English

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THE UNFOLDING LIFE

A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training

by

ANTOINETTE ABERNETHY LAMOREAUX

With Introduction by Marion Lawrance

1907

TO

My Precious Father and Mother,
in whose daily ministry
I have seen the beauty and learned the meaning
of Christian Nurture,
this book is affectionately dedicated.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT
II EARLY CHILDHOOD
III EARLY CHILDHOOD--Continued
IV EARLY CHILDHOOD--Concluded
V CHILDHOOD--SIX TO TWELVE
VI THE JUNIOR AGE--NINE TO TWELVE
VII ADOLESCENCE
VIII MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

INTRODUCTION

Having read with much care the proof sheets of this book, I am prepared
to say three things about it, and it gives me pleasure to say them here.

1. THE BOOK IS WELL NAMED. "THE UNFOLDING LIFE." Turn which way we will,
we see life unfolding all about us, and yet how faintly are its
mysteries understood! And is it not the one thing above all others,
which teachers, mothers, fathers and all of us, need to understand? It
is well that our attention has been called to this most vital of all
themes by a book, whose very name compels attention to its content, and
whose content is but its name in fuller treatment.

2. THE BOOK IS WELL WRITTEN. Such books as this should be read slowly
and pondered well; but this book by its fascination will tempt one to
read too rapidly. Its line of argument is logical; its diction is as
pure as the bubbling stream; its truths are evident and compelling. It
presents the purest psychology stripped of all mystifying
technicalities, and clothed in language which even a child can
understand. The reason for this is plain. It is the "Beaten Oil" drawn