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Normally this instinct passes harmlessly over into associations for physical training, which furnishes a safe outlet for these instincts, until the reductives of maturer years have perfected their work.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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The chronic vagrant has simply failed to develop the reductives of this normal stage.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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These instincts, more or less developed in boyhood, are repressed in normal cases before strength and skill are sufficiently developed to inflict serious bodily injury, while without the reductives that orthogenetic growth brings they become criminal.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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