Excerpt from The Jewish Child, Its History, Folklore, Biology, SociologyIt will be noticed that, in dealing with the several epochs which constitute the life-cycle of the Jewish child, I have not started from the moment of birth, which is only one of the turning-points in the cycle, nor even have I set out from the moment of conception. To have done that would have meant the omission of the very important so-called germinal stage, the stage when, to borrow Ballantyne's phraseology, the child still has a dual existence inside the germ cells of its parents. I have therefore started from this dual ante conceptional stage, and passed in review every phase from that stage onwards until the child itself becomes capable of becoming a parent.The phases considered may be put into the following tabular form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.