138 THE PSYCHICAL KINSHIP 



appearing last. The initial powers of the new- 

 born babe are those of sensation and perception. 

 The babe cannot think. It has no feeling of 

 fear, no affection, no sympathy, and no shame. 

 It can see, and hear, and taste, and feel pain 

 and satisfaction and these are about all. Even 

 these are vague and confused. In a week the 

 perceptions are more sharp and vivid, more 

 distinct and orderly. Memory arises. Memory 

 is the power of reproducing past impressions. At 

 three weeks the emotions begin to sprout. The 

 first to make their appearance are fear and 

 surprise. When the babe is seven weeks old the 

 social affections show themselves, and the simplest 

 acts of association are performed. At the age of 

 twelve weeks jealousy and anger may be expected, 

 together with simple exhibitions of association 

 by similarity. At fourteen weeks affection and 

 reason dawn. Sympathy germinates at about the 

 age of five months ; pride and resentment ger- 

 minate at eight months ; grief, hate, and benevo- 

 lence at ten months ; and shame and remorse at 

 fifteen months. 



Now, the remarkable thing about this is that 

 this is the order, or very much like the order, in 

 which mind in the animal kingdom as a whole 

 has apparently evolved. The lower orders of 

 animal life have none of the higher emotions and 

 none of the more complicated processes of mind. 

 There is no shame in the reptile, no dissimulation 

 in the fish, no sympathy in the mollusk, and no 

 memory in the sponge. Memory dawns in the 



