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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... child, long before he has reached school age or even before he uses spoken language, interprets things that are presented through the senses, by means of types, or concepts, inadequate though they be for forming correct judgments. Two or three illustrations here are sufficient: A young child, a girl, just beginning to use single words in naming things, had, as one of her playthings, a kitten, and had learned to use the word, "Kitty." On looking out of the window one day and seeing a small dog trotting along on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, she pointed with her hand and said "Kitty." The object was not a kitten. Why then did she apply this name? The kitten had often been present to the senses. The sensations produced by the mind in respose to the stimulus from L the repeated presence of the kitten, had been so frequently repeated that those representing the most obvious characteristics, as general contour, color, comparative size, etc., were readily recalled, and when the little dog was presented to the senses the child at once recognized the characteristics belonging to the kitten. These at once became the type or concept with which she compared the present object and formed her judgment as to what it was. The same child had been taken out riding several times in a carriage drawn by a bay horse. The parents had frequently talked to her about the horse and had taught her to use the word " horsey " as the name of the object. While riding in the country one day they came to a small field in which there were three cows, one red, one nearly white and the other spotted. The red cow was passed first, and when opposite the other two the child turned her back to the horse and looking back pointed towards the red cow and said " horsey."...
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