Creation to him is not a dreary mechanism of
interlocked wheels, for the earnest expectation
of the creature waiteth for the manifestation
of the sons of God. His Bangdom is an ever-
lasting Kingdom, and its members have the
dew of their youth.
Ponce de Leon set out in the wrong direc-
tion to discover the fountain of youth. It is
not in the everglades of Florida. It is the
eternal spring, a "well by the gate" in Beth-
lehem of Judaea.
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A BINET TEST FOB DEFECTIVES

Society Is at last beginning to pay some
attention to its ill-favored stepchildren. Re-
versing the policy of centuries of giving nearly
all its thought and care to its promising off-
spring, it is acting on the discovery that
schools should be not alone for the exceptional
boy or girl, or even for the normal child. Its
latest venture is in schools for the backward,
the defective and subnormal. By looking at
their needs, not with the eyes of unthinking
tradition, but with intelligence lighted by
love, it is doing wonderful things in preparing
for life the crippled in body and mind.
The first step in such a work is to find out
the degree of mental normality of a child. One
of the most approved and scientific methods
is what is known as the "Binet Test for Defec-
tives," so called from its inventor. It consists
of a number of simple questions and opera-
tions which readily disclose the degree of
deficiency of eyesight or hearing, keenness of

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observation, muscular response, and power of
mental coordination. On the basis of this test
the means and methods of education are deter-
mined.
