The wise parent, and wise he must be at this time, relaxes his care in just proportion as the child achieves ability to do things for himself. Since bodily development is more rapid than mental the close supervision of food, clothing, and physical occupation is necessary only during the early years, but the task of building up, through the slow processes of education, the sort of mind which will be able to do its proper share in dealing with the difficulties which confront the coming generations is one to which may well be devoted the best thought and effort not only of the parents, but of organized society as a whole. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: that their less curvaturos=> that their less curvatures {pg 114} as fast as it it formed.=> as fast as it is formed. {pg 180} Russian invesigator showed=> Russian investigator showed {pg 240} quantities of axygen=> quantities of oxygen {pg 254} unless artificial air can be procured=> unless artificial aid can be procured {pg 303} End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Physiology, by Ernest G. Martin