is not busily at work tearing out the foundation of mental and
bodily perfection.

SUCCESSIVE STAGES: Stuttering may be conveniently divided into
four stages, by which its progress may be measured. These may be
designated in their order as:

1--Simple Phase
2--Advanced Phase
3--Mental Phase
4--Compound Phase

The progress of the disorder is sure. Take the case of a child
eight years of age who has a case of simple stuttering. Permit the
child to go without attention for some time and the trouble will
have progressed into the Advanced Phase, usually without the
knowledge of the child or his parents or without any especially
noticeable surface change in his condition.

Stuttering in its first phase--Simple Stuttering--can justly be
called a physical and not a mental trouble. In this stage, the
disorder should be easily eradicated. The duration of cases of
Simple Stuttering is very slight, for the reason that Simple
Stuttering soon passes into the Advanced Phase, which is of a
physical-mental nature, exhibiting the symptoms of a mental
disturbance as well as of a physical difficulty.

From the Advanced Phase stuttering then passes into the Mental
Phase, where the mental strain is found to be greatly intensified
and the disorder a distinct mental type instead of a physical or