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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II TTfrELL, said Dr. Koenig, coming forward to meet VV Frau Ursula with outstretched hand, Wie geht es, Frau Hauser? He spoke German, of course, as did the entire German contingent of Anasquoit. Did Guido enjoy his outing? Too much so, Herr Doktor, entirely too much so, Frau Ursula replied, and acquainted him with the experiences of the night so far as they concerned his patient. Now, why, she concluded, should Guido go off at a tangent like that whenever anything happens to strike his fancy particularly? Meine liebe Frau Hauser The portly old gentleman leaned far back in his comfortable swivel-chair. You have every reason for gratitude that the boy's emotional excess is caused only by pleasurable excitement. If it were otherwise, considering the pain the unfortunate little chap had endured in his brief life, we would have a lunatic on our hands. His keen zest for life, his joy in beauty wheresoever found, is probably the fountain-head of the astonishing resilience he has shown in combating his disease. Ach said Frau Ursula, I never thought of it in that light. i comess, Dr. Koenig continued, Guido is a sort of human puzzle. I mean the child, not his disease. The child has in him so very much less of the clodhopper than most children have, at his age; so much less than I had, so much less, I venture to assert, than his father had. Heredity and environment Those, Frau Hauser, are the two magic keys which will some day unriddle us the Science of Humanity. Ethnologists tell us that the skulls of children born of alien parents on this soil differ radically from the skulls of their parents. What causes this ? A different soil? A different climate? A different atmosphere? Dr. Koenig made a rhetorical pause. He seemed strangelyexcit...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217628402 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217628400 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $27.27 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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