Nowhere does Binet's genius show more brilliantly than in this work. That he in the midst of a busy life and in addition to all his other work could have acquired so great a knowledge of mental defectives is amazing; the more so when we realize that it was first-hand knowledge gained from observation backed by keen perception, that perception that enabled him to see the truth with a quickness that makes the rest of us, still groping in the dark, question if it was truth Binet saw. But that it was truth we are learning every day. - Summary by Henry H. Goddard
Chapters
1 Introduction. Preliminaries 10 min 2 I. Character-The Rebellious and the Docile 24 min 3 II. Attention from the Point of View of its Concentration 12 min 4 III. Voluntary Effort 26 min 5 IV. Movements in Writing 8 min 6 V. Intelligence and Perception 17 min 7 VI. The Sense of Pain 14 min 8 VII. Association of Ideas in the Feeble-Minded 19 min 9 VIII. Activity of the Intelligence Distinguished from the Level of the Intelligence 23 min 10 IX. The Number Sense and the Arithmetrical Faculty 20 min 11 X. Reasoning 19 min 12 XI. Suggestibility through Docility 28 min 13 XII. How a Moron may have an Esprit Faux 20 min 14 XIII. A Scheme of Thought 1 h 1 min 15 PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF THE FEEBLE MINDED. I. A New Psychogenetic Method 7 min 16 II. Aphasia and the Psychology of Language 5 min 17 III. An Observation of an Imbecile. Scientific Determination of her Level 13 min 18 IV. Analysis of the State of Langauge of this Imbecile 16 min 19 V. Discussion of Three Hypotheses upon hte Absence of Speech in our Subject 8 min 20 VI. The Psychological Condition of Speech. Experiments and Theory 16 min 21 VII. Comparison between Aphasia properly so-called and the Poverty of Language of the Low Grade Imbecile 12 min 22 VIII. The Function of Language as a Sign of Human Intelligence 10 min 23 IX. The Evolution of Language 25 min 24 X. The Relation between Langauge and Thought 16 min 25 PART III. FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS AND DEMENTIA. I. The Intellectual Weakening in General Paralysis 31 min 26 II. The Minor Psychological Sign of General Paralysis. Part 1 43 min 27 II. The Minor Psychological Sign of General Paralysis. Part 2 38 min 28 III. Difference between the Two Notions of Functioning and Development 52 min 29 IV. Distinction between Ideational Intelligence and Instinctive Intelligence 48 min 30 Conclusion 6 min
