[91]. Dr. Postgate suggests that the current terms ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ would be better rendered by ‘retrospective’ and ‘prospective’.
[92]. As samples of the observations the following may be taken. A friend tells me his boy when one year old used just 50 vocables. The performances vary greatly. One American girl of twenty-two months had 69, whereas another about the same age had 136, just twice the number. A German girl eighteen months old is said by Preyer to have used 119 words, and to have raised this to 435 in the next six months. The composition of these early vocabularies will occupy us presently.
[93]. Quoted by Romanes, Mental Evolution in Man, p. 283.
[94]. Logic (University Extension Manuals), pp. 83-84.
[95]. See op. cit., p. 420, also pp. 414 and 418.
[96]. Paola Lombroso, Saggi di Psicologia del Bambino, p. 16.
[97]. See Trench’s account of poetry in words, On the Study of Words, lect. vi.
[98]. Tylor, Anthropology, chap. v.
[99]. Compayré, op. cit., p. 249, where other examples are given.
[100]. Op. cit., p. 12.