Excerpt from A Plan for the Study of Man: With Reference to Bills to Establish a Laboratory for the Study of the Criminal, Pauper, and Defective Classes, With a Bibilography of Child Study Nature Of Bills. Bills, or amendments, to establish a laboratory to study the criminal, pauper, and defective classes have been introduced in Congress by Senators Hoar, Nelson, Bacon, McComas, Quay, Penrose, Money, and Pettigrew, and by Representatives Ray (New York) and Henry (Connecticut). The general purpose of these bills is a sociologic and scientific study of the abnormal classes, it being understood that such study is a development of work already begun under the Federal Government. The term "laboratory" is employed in the broadest sense, not only including the use of instruments of precision, but the gathering of sociological data, especially as found in institutions for the abnormal classes; also investigations of anarchistic criminals, mob influence, and like phenomena; that especially the causes of social evils shall be sought out, with a view to lessening or preventing them; that these results and those of similar work shall be published from time to time. At present our State institutions gather more or less data annually, but little use is made of them. It is proposed to combine and summarize these results, to encourage uniformity of method in collecting data, making the work more useful to the country at large. 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.