I 4 o THE PSYCHICAL KINSHIP 



It is controlled almost exclusively by sense and 

 instinct. It is devoid of common-sense, and 

 divides its time impartially between play and 

 sleep. It is easily frightened, and cries at every 

 little thing. It has the rollicking, awkward, 

 irresponsible personality of a boy of six. About 

 the same thing is true of kittens, colts, calves, 

 bear cubs, the whelps of wolves, and other young 

 quadrupeds. A kitten will chase shadows, try to 

 catch flies crawling on the other side of a window- 

 pane, sit and watch in wonder the moving objects 

 about it, and do many other things which it never 

 thinks of doing when it has grown to be a wise 

 and sophisticated puss trained in the ways of 

 the world about it. Doghood, cathood, and 

 horsehood, like manhood and womanhood, are 

 the ripened products of long processes of growth 

 and exfoliation. 



The parallel is, of course, imperfect. There are 

 many abbreviations, many breaks and ambiguities, 

 in the summary presented by the individual mind 

 of the evolution of the race. And, in the present 

 state of psychogeny, only the barest outline can be 

 traced. But enough is known to render the fact 

 unquestionable. 



9. If human mind has been evolved, it is logical 

 to expect to find in other animals, especially in 

 those more closely resembling ourselves in struc- 

 ture, mind elements similar to those we find in 

 ourselves.* And this is precisely what we do find. 



* This topic is more fully presented in section IV. of this 

 chapter. 



