Studies of Childhood
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Studies of Childhood is a book by James Sully, Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London. The text reports a boy named C. who, when only four, was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond. The writer says the sympathy and love which the child gives to animals grow out of a sort of blind gregarious instinct, and thinks that a deeper feeling comes in from the first.
In one scene a child and her cousin play at chasing one another from tree to tree, for which the bed-curtains did duty. The text says play, for one child, was more than the half-hearted make-believe it often is with duller children. The text says a child of three is delightfully incapable of the skilful repressions, and the yet more skilful simulations of emotion which are easy to the adult.
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- James Sully
- Pages
- 377
- Language
- English
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- Educational
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