An Introduction to Child-study

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E. Arnold, 1907 - 348 ページ

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240 ページ - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I :' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
11 ページ - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
73 ページ - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
19 ページ - And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean thes« stones ? then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
84 ページ - ... 1. Illumination. — Is the image dim or fairly clear? Is its brightness comparable to that of the actual scene? " '2. Definition. — Are all the objects pretty well defined at the same time, or is the place of sharpest definition at any one moment more contracted than it is in a real scene? " '3. Colouring. — Are the colours of the china, of the toast, bread-crust, mustard, meat, parsley, or whatever may have been on the table, quite distinct and natural?
27 ページ - All animals living in a body, which defend themselves or attack their enemies in concert, must indeed be in some degree faithful to one another; and those that follow a leader must be in some degree obedient. When the baboons in Abyssinia" plunder a garden, they silently follow their leader ; and if an imprudent young animal makes a noise, he receives a slap from the others to teach him silence and obedience.
93 ページ - Who can tell what a baby thinks ? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels his way Out from the shore of the great unknown, Blind and wailing, and alone, Into the light of day...
9 ページ - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
235 ページ - The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
323 ページ - They have had exactly the same nurture from their birth up to the present time; they are both perfectly healthy and strong, yet they are otherwise as dissimilar as two boys could be, physically, mentally, and in their emotional nature.

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