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scale of life — the Annelids — Mr. Romanes distin- 

 guished what appeared to him to 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 ; Sym- 

 pathy with Birds. The 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, practi- 

 cally 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 companion Anger. Sympathy ap- 

 pears after five months ; Pride, Resentment, Love of 

 Ornament, after eight ; Shame, Remorse, and Sense of 

 the Ludicrous after fifteen. These dates, of course, 

 do not indicate in any mechanical way the birthdays 

 of emotions ; they represent rather stages in an infi- 

 nitely gentle mental ascent, stages nevertheless so 



