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156 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



vices of a primitive people. It is held 

 by some naturalists, that the child is 

 only a zoophyte, with a stomach, and 

 feelers radiating from it in search of 

 something to fill it. It is true that a 

 child is always hungry all over : but he 

 is also curious all over ; and his curiosity is 

 excited about as early as his hunger. 

 He immediately begins to put out his 

 moral feelers into the unknown and the 

 infinite to discover what sort of an 

 existence this is into which he has come. 

 His imagination is quite as hungry as 

 his stomach. And again and again it is 

 stronger than his other appetites. You 

 can easily engage his imagination in a 

 story which will make him forget his 

 dinner. He is credulous and supersti 

 tious, and open to all wonder. In this, 

 he is exactly like the savage races. 

 Both gorge themselves on the marvel 

 lous ; and all the unknown is marvellous 



