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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

periods in his growth to middle age. In fact, every person in the course of his lifetime passes through 9 10 LIFE IN THE MAKING four periods, namely, infancy, childhood, youth, and adult life. More or less clearly distinguishable stages of growth may be recognized within these periods. For example, we recognize that childhood embraces three such stages, which we speak of as early childhood, middle childhood, and later child-hood, and that youth likewise has three-early, middle, and later youth. Growth is not peculiar to the physical nature. The mind, as well as the body, grows. The periods which we have just named represent stages in the intellectual and moral life as well as in the bodily life. The youth is morally and religiously as dis­tinct from the infant as he is a different being physically. Growth in the child, just as in the plant, is from within. It results from the working of an inner principle which we call life. While growth is the normal manifestation of life, it cannot continue un­less right conditions exist and

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