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Mental Visions: Visions.—The work purports to be a series of visions received by the writer, thus giving his message more authority than it would have otherwise. Actually, the book is the product of careful literary composition, with an introduction, a conclusion, and an outline of the main body which consists of seven series of visions, with seven visions in each series. The author has made a great deal of use of the Old Testament, but like many another writer has reshaped what he used to fit his message. Furthermore, he shows an acquaintance with the apocalyptic traditions of his times.
This elite group called for the complete emancipation of pictorial photography, properly so called, from the retarding and nanizing bondage of that which was purely scientific or technical, with which its identity had been confused too long; its development as an independent art; and its advancement along such lines as to them seemed the proper track of progress into what, as the perspective of logical possibilities opened itself to their mental visions, appeared to be its promised land.
Mass investigations on the basis of age norms, however, have indicated only a slight relation between the mental and physical status of children. A spurt in mental growth does not appear to parallel the preadolescent spurt in physical growth. The pattern of mental development is similar in boys and girls, despite the difference in their rates of physical maturing.
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