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PREFACE.

I. INTRODUCTORY.

II. THE AGE OF IMAGINATION.

Why we call Children Imaginative.

Imaginative Transformation of Objects.

Imagination and Play.

Free Projection of Fancies.

Imagination and Storyland.

III. THE DAWN OF REASON.

The Process of Thought.

The Questioning Age.

IV. PRODUCTS OF CHILD-THOUGHT.

The Child’s Thoughts about Nature.

Psychological Ideas.

Theological Ideas.

V. THE LITTLE LINGUIST.

Prelinguistic Babblings.

Transition to Articulate Speech.

Beginnings of Linguistic Imitation.

Transformations of our Words.

Logical Side of Children’s Language.

Sentence-building.

Getting at our Meanings.

VI. SUBJECT TO FEAR.

Children’s Sensibility.

Startling Effect of Sounds.

Fear of Visible Things.

The Fear of Animals.

Fear of the Dark.

Fears and their Palliatives.

VII. RAW MATERIAL OF MORALITY.

Primitive Egoism.

Germs of Altruism.

Children’s Lies.

VIII. UNDER LAW.

The Struggle with Law.

On the Side of Law.

The Wise Law-giver.

IX. THE CHILD AS ARTIST.

First Responses to Natural Beauty.

Early Attitude towards Art.

Beginnings of Art-production.

X. THE YOUNG DRAUGHTSMAN.

First Attempts to Draw.

First Drawings of the Human Figure.

Front and Side View of Human Figure.

First Drawings of Animals.

Men on Horseback, etc.

Résumé of Facts.

Explanation of Facts.

XI. EXTRACTS FROM A FATHER’S DIARY.

First Year.

Second Year.

Third Year.

Fourth Year.

Fifth Year.

Sixth Year.

XII. GEORGE SAND’S CHILDHOOD.

The First Years.

The Grandmother’s Regime.

A Self-evolved Religion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

(A) GENERAL WORKS ON CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.

(B) SPECIAL WORKS.

INDEX.