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conies very infrequent. Affection and sympathy, 

 the higher emotions, come later ; and compassion, 

 one of the highest emotions, does not appear until 

 near the close of the period. Different authors 

 have noted the evident sorrow of the child when 

 the picture of a man was cut into by a pair of 

 scissors. These higher emotions, being encour- 

 aged, grow rapidly and become habitual. 



Among intellectual qualities, attention, mem- 

 ory, volition, and somatic consciousness, powers 

 shared by the lower animals, are first developed, 

 while active imagination and reason, the essen- 

 tially human powers, are the last to be developed. 

 Some idea of number is now shown. Imitation, 

 the power which is of so great importance through 

 all the years of parental guidance, now appears. 

 It is the spiritual hand which the child out- 

 stretches and with which he takes to himself all 

 within sight and hearing. It is deeply imbedded 

 in the nature; arises as an impulse previous to 

 reason and volition, so that he can have no choice ; 

 he must imitate. Before reason or volition can 

 play any great role this activity has the child's 

 development in its grip and reigns supreme. Its 

 causal law is, "The idea of a movement is al- 

 ready the beginning of that movement." The 

 idea is not completely known until it has been 

 experienced. In other places we have called at- 

 tention to the advantage that it gives the parent. 

 We need not dwell further upon it here. The 



