46 MOEAL CONDITION OF THE CHILD 



appear until a much later period." (Sunday 

 School Journal, 1910.) 



I have made this extended quotation to show 

 that this child is so evidently related to other ani- 

 mals thus far in its history that we are justified 

 in calling it an animal, unless there are other rev- 

 elations that make it transcend the animal king- 

 dom. Are there such evidences? 



It is perhaps quite difficult now for us to con- 

 fine our attention to just what we see. We have 

 seen other infants grow up to show reason, intelli- 

 gence, conscience, imagination, and other marks 

 of personality and moral character. It is almost 

 inevitable that we think this being has all of these 

 qualities, but for the present that it does not know 

 how to express them, or that they are in a sort 

 of undeveloped state, or something; we may 

 have never explained to ourselves just what. We 

 spontaneously think he is a person; he has 

 thoughts, if we only knew how to get at them. 

 But this is allowing imagination, and not obser- 

 vation, to form our convictions. The child is what 

 we see; we have no good right to read into him 

 what we have seen developed into other children 

 that had the same kind of beginning. It would 

 require much marshaling of technical authorities 

 to prove this in detail. I do not feel called upon 

 to prove a negative, but simply to call attention 

 to what the living child testifies. This little be- 

 ing has no morals ; he has not even thoughts ; he 

 can not see objects or discern colors ; he has not 



