INFANCY 



little consciousness of aught beyond a vegetative 

 life. Its utter helplessness, its inability to move 

 about, to express any want or feeling otherwise than 

 by cries expressive of discomfort arising from pain 

 or hunger, make it absolutely dependent upon the 

 mother's care. During this period it is probably not 

 conscious of more than a vague feeling of comfort 

 and satisfaction if it is well and its wants attended to, 

 or of equally vague sensations of discomfort if the 

 conditions are otherwise. About the beginning of 

 the second year a great change occurs ; the evidences 

 of the mind higher in intelligence than those of the 

 other mammalia now begin to manifest themselves. 

 The boy recognizes persons, shows that he under- 

 stands in part when spoken to, manifests the same 

 pleasure in moving his limbs, and later in moving 

 about, that all young animals share. With his 

 growth comes the power of walking and running ; 

 with that of speech the establishment of the faculty 

 that distinguishes man from other animals, and raises 

 him into the world of his own. 



The next four years of the child are like those of 

 the young of the higher mammalia : as they do, so 

 he rejoices in the exercise of his bodily and muscular 

 faculties. He delights in running, jumping and 

 frolicking, in the same manner and for the same 

 cause that the lambs and kittens do, and as they 

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