The FIRST THREE YEARS Of CHILDHOOD. Edited and Translated by Alice M. Christie. Introduction by James Sully.
Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1885. 1st Edition in English. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 292 pp. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. Square & tight. Spine sunned. Top edge a bit soiled. Withal, a solid VG copy. Item #48109
Contents include: The faculties of the infant before birth -- The first impressions of the new-born child -- Motor activity at the beginning of life -- Motor activity at six months -- Motor activity at fifteen months -- Instructive and emotional sensations -- General and special instincts -- Special instincts -- The sentiments -- Intellectual tendencies -- Veracity -- Imitation -- Credulity -- The will -- The faculties of intellectual acquisition and retention: Attention; Memory -- The association of physical states: Association; Imagination; Special imagination -- On the elaboration of ideas: Judgment; Abstraction ; Comparison ; Generalization ; Reasoning; The errors and illusions of children ; Errors owing to moral causes -- On expression and language -- The aesthetic sense in little children" The musical sense ; The sense of material beauty ; The constructive instinct ; The dramatic instinct -- Personality-reflection-moral sense -- The moral sense.
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