The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-22

thumb in the child and the mobility
of the toes of child; then the creas-
Ing of child's foot seems to show an
even greater mobility.
Apes have a dread of water; they
cannot swim. The direction of the finer
hairs in man is the same as in apes.
The fiat nose and poucned cheeks OF
children are the same as in apes. The
fear of snakes and Of thunder are found
in apes. The fear of an open space
which is found sometimes in children.
seems to be a remnant of the tree
life. The positions of an ape in sleep
and Of child, are the same. The rock
ing to put a child to sleep, seems to
be a remnant of the tree life. Then
there were tree myths, tree religions
and superstition.
A third, is the relation of animals.
Children have A fears of animals
known and unknown. Some children
imagine special animals, some fear the
animals in the geography. There Is a
horror of big eyes and big teeth and
shaggy sides in children. The struggle
between man and animals suggests
what an effect it may have had on the
human mind.
The migration tendencies in children
is another sign. The chief motive of
migration is to get the temperature
best suited to the species. Pri ultive
man was nomadie. There were period
ical migrations to and from the sea-
shore. We have people of this kind
in the globe trotters, the gypsy class
of people
There is a disposition to see some
thing new, and there is inconsistencies
which is a pull in the other direction.
When child begins to walk, it wants
| to run away; then there is tendency
to follow things.
There is a fetishism in little chill
dren. Some have dolls or woolly dogs,
which they keep with them all the time,
which they talk to and which seem
more real than the parents. The doll,
some writer's say, was an idol.
The fashion of bullying and teasing
| is strong in children, sometimes so
strong as to cause crime. 1t seems to
be an outcrop of the old fighting in
stinct, one man against the other.
Hazing is another development of this
instinct.
There are very many other points.
There is the fear of darkness. Dark
ness was a dangerous time for print
tive man, and there is that nervous hor-
ror of darkness in children, 1t is sug-
gested that blushing is due to the time
when to attract attention was danger
Gus.
We have the passion of lying. Chill
dren love to lie. Everything they inn
agine is real, and there is a peculiar
sort of bravado in a child when it lies.
| We have plenty of cases in psychology
of people who like to say black is
white just for the pleasure of saying so.
There have been charlatans who seem
| to enjoy inventing preposterous lies and
making people believe them.
| Than fharp is the nrnnap EifW FOR rev.
erie and day dreaming They simply
cannot hold the attention. How can
we explain dreams when we know that
some of them never could have come to
us in our life?
| There is animisrn in children the
strong sense Of smell, imitation, mimic
ry, are all found strongest in them.
| The real child is a more real child
| than the mannikin child, the child OF
| books that we are apt to conceive of.
The child passes through all these
stages, and we must conform our edu-
cation to them. Education consists OF
| exhausting each stage as we come to 1T.
! The moral faculties must be developed
| first for these control our savage pro-
pensities. Otherwise we shall not de-
| yelop as we should
We all know that man is not at the
goal of evolution, and 1 believe when
we come to know the evolution of the
soul, we shall recognize that all types
| of life are brothers. Best of it all is
the optimism with which evolution
| faces the future, that we are still ad-
vancing toward goal, the perfection
| of which we cannot conceive.