Emerson sang in his beautiful "Threnody": "The gracious boy, who did adorn The world whereinto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving Day,-- Has disappeared from the Day's eye; Far and wide she cannot find him; My hopes pursue, they cannot bind him.
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Nature, who lost, cannot remake him; Fate let him fall, Fate can't retake him; ........................................
the feet Of the most beautiful and sweet Of human youth had left the hill And garden,--they were bound and still." It is of such that affection speaks most tenderly.
QUESTIONS ON THE FLOWER OF THE FAMILY 1.

How far should the general family life be burdened for special development of the genius, the near-genius, and the specially talented member?
2.

What added social provisions should we seek to secure to aid in the self-training of the specially gifted?
3.

What type of education may lead more surely to the discovery of talent and special faculty in the mass of children?
4.

Should the chief aim be to bring the subnormal or backward up to grade or to give a free and helpful range of opportunity to natural qualities of leadership?
If both should be aimed at equally, how can the public school aid in the double task?
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