EVOLUTION AND PSYCHOLOGY 



primitive tribes, propensity for hunting, killing, 

 striking with clubs, pounding, stealing, etc., the 

 sense of the power of the point, edge, string, and 

 many forms of plays and toys, the nascent sense 

 of death, and other items far too numerous to 

 even catalogue here — all show that the child is 

 vastly more ancient than the man, and that adult- 

 hood is comparatively a novel structure built 

 upon very antique foundations. The child is 

 not so much the father of the man as his very 

 venerable and, in his early stages, half-anthropoid 

 ancestor. There can no longer be any question 

 that its rudimentary psychic organs are no whit 

 less numerous than the half -score of anatomical 

 rudiments that Wiedersheim enumerates. Per- 

 haps, in general, the traces of the psychic reca- 

 pitulation of the history of the race are most 

 traceable and most unbroken, faint as some of 

 the traces are. Psycho-genesis, like embryology, 

 shows many rudiments preserved and developed 

 by being diverted to other than their original 

 uses, although of very few psychic traits or func- 

 tions have there been adequate material methods 

 of record and preservation as structural details 

 are preserved ; nevertheless, they follow the same 

 lapidary law and speak a language which, when 

 it is set down and interpreted, is no less clear and 

 certain. 



In general, nearly every act, sensation, feel- 

 ing, will, and thought of the young child tends 

 to be paleopsychic just in proportion as the child 



