Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
Quotes about recapitulates (2 Quotes)
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.