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be one of the earliest emotions — Fear. Somewhat 

 higher up, among the Insects, he met with the 

 Social Feelings, as well as Industry, Pugnacity, and 

 Curiosity. Jealousy seems to have been born into 

 the world with Fishes ; Sympathy with Birds. Thq 

 Carnivora are responsible for Cruelty, Hate, and 

 Grief; the Anthropoid Apes for Remorse, Shame, 

 the Sense of the Ludicrous, and Deceit. 



Now, when we compare this table with a similar 

 table compiled from a careful study of the emotional 

 states in a little child, two striking facts appear. 

 In the first place, there are almost no emotions in 

 the child which are not here — this list, in short, 

 practically exhausts the list of human emotions. 

 With the exception of the religious feelings, the 

 moral sense, and the perception of the sublime, 

 there is nothing found even in adult Man which 

 is not represented with more or less vividness in 

 the Animal Kingdom. But this is not all. These 

 emotions, as already hinted, appear in the Mind of 

 the growing child in the same order as they appear 

 on the animal scale. At three weeks, for instance. 

 Fear is perceptibly manifest in a little child. When 

 it is seven weeks old the Social Affections dawn. 

 At twelve weeks emerges Jealousy, with its com- 

 panion Anger. Sympathy appears after five months; 

 Pride, Resentment, Love of Ornament, after eight ; 



