182 ON THE INTELLECT OF INFANTS, 



ing you the remainder of my notes on the same indiyidiial. 



Continuation ^^ i ij^vc made it a particular point to keep close to what 

 of a register ,, . ^ , . , , ^ 



of the progress ^^^^^^^"^''/ ■^''^*^^^" at the time, instead of trusting to 

 of an infant any thing my memory might now suggest, you will find 

 from twelve 

 days old. Some repetitions and perhaps defects of style, which that 



resolution has prevented me from amending. The dates 

 continue to express the age of the child, whose pro- 

 gress from one day to another became less marked, in 

 proportion as her stores of knowledge and ac(iuirement 

 became greater when compared with the improvement of 

 any short interval of time, 

 ijtft day of her Fifteenth day of her age. The infant decidedly knows 

 age. Knows her mother when near her ; but doubtfully if distant. She 

 a short distance ^^^^ ^^"S known her when in her arms. Her acuteness of 

 observation and the use of her hands improve, though 

 slowly. She grows very fat and is indolent, probably 

 from the constitutional habits of her age and growth, and 

 perhaps from the less lively impression of surrounding 

 objects to which she is now accustomed. I thin]4 she 

 still shows me a marked preference of intelligent atten- 

 tion. This morning her mother was talking to her, and 

 ——and is a- upon her giving some striking signs of pleasure, her mo- 



ft-arcof theuse ther called to me '' do look at her,"— the infant instantly 

 of language. 



turned her head from her mother to me, and appeared 



highly pleased at my coming to her. This could scarcely 

 be casual : if it was not, she must have made considerable 

 progress in the knowledge of the shortest and most fre- 

 quent sentences used respecting her, of which " do look 

 at her," is certainly one of the most frequent, 

 j^th. Diverted Nineteenth day. She is highly interested and diverted 

 by other chil- ^^ ^^^^ brothers and sisters, who are running about the 

 room and occasionally take notice of her. 

 a^d. Endea- Twenty-third day. The infant is very desirous of arti- 

 v6urs to articu- culating, and makes many efforts, by varying the form of 

 the mouth and position of the tongue. When she suc- 

 ceeds in producing the resemblance of a word or syllabi* 

 she is much pleased and shews her satisfaction by motions 

 of the legs and arms. She nevcA makes this eifort but 

 when engaged and attentive to some person who speaks 

 to her, and whose approbation she seems to court by an 

 endeavour at imitation, 



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