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Title: Jukes-Edwards
A Study in Education and Heredity

Author: A. E. Winship

Release Date: April 14, 2005 [EBook #15623]

Language: English

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JUKES-EDWARDS

A STUDY IN EDUCATION AND HEREDITY

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BY

A.E. WINSHIP, LITT.D.

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HARRISBURG, PA.:

R.L. Myers & Co.

1900.

To HIM

Who, more than any other, has taught us how to afford opportunity for
neglected, unfortunate and wayward boys and girls to transform
themselves into industrious, virtuous and upright citizens through the
most remarkable institution in the land,

WILLIAM R. GEORGE,

FOUNDER OF

THE GEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC,

THIS STUDY IS DEDICATED.

R.L. MYERS & CO.,
PUBLISHERS OF

Standard Helps for Teachers,
Standard School Books.

SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
HARRISBURG, PENNA.

PREFACE.

Of all the problems which America faces on the land and on the seas, no
one is so important as that of making regenerates out of degenerates.
The massing of people in large cities, the incoming of vast multitudes
from the impoverished masses of several European and Asiatic countries,
the tendency to interpret liberty as license, the contagious nature of
moral, as well as of physical, diseases combine to make it of the utmost
importance that American enterprise and moral force find ways and means
for accomplishing this transformation. The grand results of the movement
in New York city inspired by Jacob Riis; the fascinating benevolence of
the Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, N.Y.; the marvelous transfiguration of
character--I speak it reverently--at the George Junior Republic,
Freeville, N.Y., added to the College Settlement and kindred efforts
merely indicate what may be accomplished when philanthropy supplements
saying by doing, and when Christianity stands for the beauty of
wholeness and is satisfied with not