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-148- I ! Then, too, we ha-?* our practical experience in etudying patiants whose difficultiea ware not unlike those we find in Hitler* Our knowledge of the origins of thpaa difficulties 007 often ba used to evaluate conflicting information, check deduc- ts, on a concerning what probably happened, or to fill In gaps wbor# no Inforaatien is aTallabl** It may be poeaibla with th» help of all thefle sooircea of inTorafttiori to reconstruct th« outfttaoding gvents ip his early lit9 *frieh hare detenilnsd hie prftBant behavior *o4 charicter atructure. Our study miot, ?io**Tier, of netisaaity be spaculetlve and inccaiclusiTa. It may t*Ll no a great deal about the mental proeeaeep of our subject but i t cannot be a* cflBprelienai^ or conclusive as the findings of a direct study conducted with the cooperation of the Individual* NovortheltfflB, tile situation is such ihaX even an indirect atudy of this kind is warranted* _ Priud'e aarlieat fled greateflt cootribution t& paychiatiy In particular and to an understanding of hunau conduct in. getieral •as hi* discovery of the inportsmce of the firflt y&aro of a child1 ft life in ntwping hifl future character. It is during these early ^ara, when the cbiM** acquaiDtance^hip wltix th* norld ia still uagre and his capacities ire fltiH • that th& *hanceB of ftisinterpreting tho nature of the about hia are ta# gr&atast. Tho mind of the child !• inadequate for under standing the demands which a complex eulturs matcaa • Upon hi* or tha hast of confusing experience* U which he ia . • REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES