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The Author. For the study of history Guglielmo Ferrero had a good training -he began as a criminologist. His first book, The Delinquent Woman, was written in collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their...
Age of greatest physical stamina: about 6. In all children, the onset of adolescence causes a tremendous physical strain. From the age of 13 on, the physical efficiency of women does not increase, may even decline. Girls of 18 were exhausted by the 600-yard run, although children of 6...
But more violent theories of socialism were already supplanting these gentle persuaders whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed...
≫ Too much air-cooling in the summer is unhealthy, says Dr. Mills. "Body and mind seem to need this annual period of biologic rest. Any great degree of summer cooling tends to keep the body machine going at winter speed, and must only accentuate the signs of wear and...
His only hobby nowadays is the propagation of biologic truth-which, says Oscar Riddle, provides man with his "just hope for grandeur and power, and happiness." No cloistered, secretive scientist, he constantly sallies forth to preach the necessity of wider understanding of biological research.