Mobility and Boy Behaviour

It is only within recent times that any study of boy behaviour from the point of view of its purely social origin has been made. The boy has been studied merely as an individual and little if any emphasis has been given to those many interesting influences which constantly tend to mold his life and develop his character. But we are becoming conscious of the multiplicity of those influences which constantly play on the individual, and what is more significant, we are beginning to recognize the importance of these influences upon intimate behaviour traits. By a concentration of thought upon the environment of the individual boy we thus find many reasons for the "why" and "how" of his actions. [...