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