PREFACE

TOHIS GRANDSONOSWALD GEORGE WILSON BELLTHIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR

TOHIS GRANDSONOSWALD GEORGE WILSON BELLTHIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

The following treatise includes data originally accumulated in a series of papers communicated to the Canadian Institute and the Royal Society of Canada, aiming at determining the cause of Left-handedness by a review of its history in its archæological, philological, and physiological aspects. In revising the materials thus accumulated in illustration of the subject, with a view to their publication in a connected form, the results of later investigation have been embodied here, not only with the aim of tracing Left-handedness to its true source, and thereby proving the folly of persistentlystriving to suppress an innate faculty of exceptional aptitude, but also to enforce the advantages to be derived by all from a systematic cultivation of dexterity in both hands.

Bencosie, Toronto,24th April 1891.

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