184 O^ THE INTELLECT OF INFANTS. 



Uses the hands while sucking. There is yet, however, very little con- 

 nection * with ' '^^^^•o'^ between the hand and the eye. While she is at 

 the eyes. the breast, contemplating her mother's face, she occasional- 



ly stretches forth her arms and is delighted if her mother 

 will lean forward and kiss her hand. Her smile, which 

 originally seemed to denote simple pleasure, is now more 

 Pleased with expressive and intelligent. She laughs at being mocked 

 tncksandmoc- qj, suddenly deprived of the breast ; and waits with some 

 eagerness for a repetition of the trick. The nurse's 

 practice of covering the child's face with her pin-cloth, 

 and then suddenly plucking it off affords her diversion. 

 Very attentive Keys rattled before her, or a nosegay held near her, are 

 toher^but does ^^^^^^ ^^^^ eager attention and prominence of the mouth; 

 not try to take at the same time that she grasps her own clothes, but does 

 thenu jjQ^ attempt to apply the hand to the object of attention. 



She has a very marked fondness for her mother, and 

 shews it, occasionally, by applying her mouth, opened 

 very wide, against her mother's cheek, making at the 

 same time, a gentle noise expressive of affection, 

 loth week. Tenth week. Though her improvement in connecting 

 No attempt to the action of the hands with the sense of sight is very evi- 

 objects. <^®"^ i^ ^^^ manner of taking hold of her own clothes or 



her mother's neck-handkerchief, yet she makes no 

 attempt to seize any thing, in consequence of first seeing 

 it. 

 Peculiarity in Hogarth in his " Analysis" of beauty mentions as one 

 the infant face; of the characters of the infant face, that the iris or coloured 

 ^a"rth^^^^^°' ci*'^^^ ^^ the eye, being nearly of the same size in all ages, 

 bears a greater proportion than usual to the size of the 

 face in young subjects. But there is another more strik- 

 ing and very general difference. In this infant, the bony 

 edge which supports the eye-brow, being naturally low, 

 the upper eye-lid at first covered part of the iris as it does 

 ,— another still in many adults ; but when the face became full and pro, 

 more remark- ^^j^ej^t^ as is the case with thriving children, the lower 

 eyelid, being pressed upwards, covered more of the iris, 

 than the upper. This effect is common with infants, but 

 is, I think, never seen at a more advanced age. 

 iith week. Latter end of the eleventh week. The attachment of 



Attempts to C to her mother seems to increase. She laments or 



swer^b Tound' ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ servaat carries hev away. Jler attempts 



