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 bring him back to life. The face is so changed for the better as to be almost unrecognizable.



Séguin had a great horror of routine, and of falling into mere use and wont. His book, The Child, Normal and Abnormal, is like a living raft, and the reason is, that even though he sat at the feet of many teachers, he returned always to study the child under his own roof, to learn from the little helpless, and perhaps motionless figure of the "abnormal" child, whose pitiful face and form held the key to so many enigmas, whose darkened life was a secret as well as a tragedy. The study of the normal and the abnormal side by side proved very fruitful. When one begins to look into the exercises he gave to his defective scholars one finds, as we have already said,