Excerpt from The Research Department What It Is Doing, What It Hopes to Do The objects of the school were primarily and originally to furnish asylum for mentally defective children, to give them such mental and manual training as they were capable of receiving, and to make them as comfortable and happy throughout life as possible. The humanitarian motives which led to the organization of this school home for unfortunates found expression in 1906 in the organization of a research laboratory in connection with the Training School, where accurate, comprehensive, scientific study of feeble-mindedness gives promise of invaluable revela tions as to the cause of these defects, their amelioration and the methods of prevention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.