Studies of childhood

by James Sully

• Queyrat, F., [27].
• Questioning, children’s, date of first, [75];
  • significance of, [75];
  • various directions of, [76];
  • as to reasons and causes, [77], [447], [457];
  • rage of, [83], [446];
  • about origins, [85], [485];
  • metaphysical direction of, [87];
  • about nature’s processes, [87];
  • how to deal with, [89].
• Quinet, Edgar, [57].

R.

• Reaching out to objects. See [Grasping].
• Realism, æsthetic, of child, [314].
• Reason, reasoning, the dawn of, [64];
  • early practical form of, [71];
  • seen in comparison, [71];
  • in discovering connexions of things, [73];
  • child’s manner of, [80], [93], [448], [458], [459], [469], [470];
  • growth of power of, [447], [459].
• Rebelliousness of child, [269], [452].
  • See [Law].
• Recognition of objects, beginnings of, [68], [404];
  • of pictures, [309].
• Reduplication of sounds, [137], [156].
• Reflexions, early attention to, [405], [406].
  • See [Mirror].
• Religion, child’s experience of, [506];
  • invention of, [510].
• Remorse after lying, [262];
  • after disobedience, [278];
  • nature of child’s, [477].
• Rhyme, child’s feeling for, [451].
• Rhythm, child’s feeling for, [308].
• Ricci, Corrado, [335], [360 note], [363 note], [369], [379 note], [380].
• Robinson, Dr. Louis, [17].
• Romancings. See [Story].
• Romanes, G. J., [139 note], [164 note], [220].
• Rousseau, J. J., [1], [214], [218], [228], [272].
• Rules. See [Law].
• Ruskin, J., [25], [32], [41], [241 note], [247].

S.

• Sand, George, [43], [109], [113], [223];
  • childhood of, [489].
• Savage, his fondness for toys, [45];
  • names of, [168];
  • æsthetic taste of, [306], [307];
  • adornment of, [318];
  • drawings of, [331 note], [332], [336], [337], [338], [340], [344], [345 note], [346 note], [348], [349], [352], [353], [355], [356], [358 note], [359], [361], [365], [366], [368], [371], [372], [373], [374 note], [377], [379], [381].
• Schoolcraft, H. R., [337 note], [344], [352 note], [369 note], [373 note], [374 note], [379].
• Schultze, F., [153].
• Science and childhood, [3].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [196].
• Sea, curiosity respecting, [83];
  • child’s first impression of, [202], [433].
• Secrets, secreting objects, [252].
• Self, child’s first ideas about, [109], [113], [457];
  • consciousness of, [114], [426];
  • way of speaking of, [178], [444].
• Self-feeling, as element in child’s anger, [235], [471].
• Self-restraint, germ of, [288], [436].
• Self-will in child, [451].
  • See [Law].
• Semblance, child’s production of, [323];
  • his understanding of, [313].
• Sensation, attribution of, to objects, [449].
  • See [Vivification].
• Sensibility, sensitiveness, of child, [191].
• Sentence, first formation of, [171], [420];
  • growth of, [430], [440].
• Sentence-words, [171].
• Shadows, child’s ideas of, [113];
  • his fear of, [206].
• Shinn, M. W., [18 note], [86], [129], [173], [196], [221 note], [239], [301], [302], [308], [309], [310], [311], [312].
• Shrinkage, ascribed by child to inanimate objects, [97];
  • child’s ideas of, in old age, [105].
• Shyness, child’s feeling of, [450].
• Sigismund, B., [4].
• Sight, sense of, first exercises of, [401], [404].
• Sign-making, as spontaneous impulses in child, [138], [431].
  • See [Gesture] and [Language].
• Sikorski, Dr., [213].
• Similarity, child’s feeling for, [33];
  • play of, seen in extension of names, [162], [426];
  • early perception of, [72], [441].
• Sky, children’s ideas of distance of, [99];
  • their conception of form of, [100].
• Smile, first appearance of, [11], [401];
  • growth of, [407].
• Sociability, social feelings, germs of, in child, [242], [433].
  • See [Sympathy].
• Soul, child’s idea of. See [Animism].
• Sounds, as sign of life, [97];
  • early spontaneous, [134];
  • fear of, [194], [409].
  • See [Articulation].
• Space, first perceptions of, [4].
• Speech. See [Language].
• Spencer, Herbert, [125].
• Steinen, Karl von den, [331 note], [336 note], [338], [345], [348 note], [352 note], [355], [371], [372], [379].
• Stephen, Leslie, [307 note].
• Stevens, E. M., [81 note], [124], [212].
• Stevenson, R. L., [36], [39], [95 note], [206], [214], [225 note], [323], [326].
• Story, as stimulus to imagination, [54];
  • child’s respect for exact words of, [57];
  • acting out of, in play, [58];
  • early attempts at invention of, [59], [328], [453], [467], [494];
  • understanding of, [314].
• Strangers, child’s fear of, [201], [410].
• Substantive, first use of, [170].
  • See [Language].
• Subterfuges of children, [262], [271], [451].
• Supernatural, the, child’s ideas of, [124];
  • fear of, [212], [491], [505].
  • See [Fairies].
• Symbolism, in art representation, [325], [336], [383], [390].
• Sympathy, as qualification of the child-observer, [14];
  • with inanimate objects, [30];
  • lack of, in children, [236];
  • early forms of, [243], [408], [433];
  • beginnings of genuine, [244], [451], [474];
  • with animals, [247], [467], [475], [485];
  • with toys, etc., [249].
• Sweet, H., 155 [note].

T.

• Taine, H., [141], [142].
• Teasing, as characteristic of child, [242].
• Tender emotion, [450], [461].
• Terrifying children, [226].
• Thackeray, W. M., [56].
• Theological ideas, [120].
  • See [God].
• Thought of children, the process of, [64];
  • products of, [91];
  • tendency to system in, [91];
  • compared with thought of primitive man, [92];
  • modus operandi of, [93].
• Thunder, child’s ideas of, [101];
  • his fear of, [196], [433].
• Tiedemann, D., [140].
• Time, first notions of, [119], [429], [443], [455].
• Tolstoi, Count L., 192 [note], 238 [note].
• Touch, first sensations of, [400];
  • examination of things by, [403].
• Toys, imaginative transformation of, [42];
  • affection lavished on, [249].
  • See [Doll] and [Play].
• Tracy, F., [148 note], [205 note], [405 note].
• Training, moral, wrong and right methods of, [291].
  • See [Discipline].
• Trunk. See [Body].
• Truth, child’s instinctive respect for, [264], [476].
  • See [Lies].
• Tylor, E. B., [168 note].

U.

• Unseen, as field for imagination, [52].
• Untruth. See [Lies].

V.