The Incorporated Lancashire and Cheshire Society For the Permanent Care of the Feeble-Minded. [centered double score] Hon. Sec.: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. [indented score] Hon. Treas.: Sam Gamble, Esq., Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester. [indented long score] Any further communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. Telephone: 129 Didsbury. [seal of University College London to the right of text] December 5 1912. Dear Professor Pearson, I am always glad if anything I can do is of service to you. The question of definitions is, of course, difficult. Personally, I think that the following is more correct than any other which has been put forward:- "The Feeble-minded are those who, no matter what the degree of their power to make acquirements either of knowledge or of manual dexterity, are unable to acquire the power of applying such knowledge or dexterity for the benefit of themselves or of other people who, having passed the years of infancy, have not developed the power of inhibition, so that they are dangerous to themselves and to others." [underscored text]Classification of Feeble-minded.[end underscored text] (1) Feeble-minded:- (a) High-grade (or Morons as in the United States). These include most of those who can be described as failures from want of self-control - or as moral failures. They have commonly developed a fair capacity for acquiring knowledge - often a better capacity than that of a low-grade normal person. But they never develop the power of inhibition. (This sometimes shows itself physically as well as mentally. It is not uncommon to find high-grade Feeble-minded who cannot control themselves and suffer from enuresis) [end]