[24]. I fail to understand what Professor Mark Baldwin means by saying that an only child is wanting in imagination (op. cit., p. 358). In his emphasising of the influence of imitation and external suggestion the writer seems to have overlooked the rather obvious fact that childish imagination in its intenser and more energetic forms means a detachment from the sensible world, and that lonely children are, as more than one autobiography, as well as mother’s record, show, particularly imaginative just because of the absence of engaging activities in the real world.
[25]. Egger quoted by Compayré, op. cit., pp. 149, 150.
[26]. Goltz, Buch der Kindheit, pp. 4, 5.
[27]. See the study of George Sand’s childhood below, chap. xii.
[28]. Cf. Perez, L’Art et la Poésie chez l’enfant, p. 28.
[29]. For her remarkable analysis of the child’s feeling for his doll, see below, chap. xii.
[30]. Origin of Civilisation, appendix, p. 521.
[31]. Baldwin gives a pretty example of this, op. cit., p. 362.
[32]. An example is given by Paola Lombroso, Psicologia del Bambino, p. 126.
[33]. Quoted by Compayré, op. cit., p. 150.