[134]. Observation of F. H. Champneys, Mind, vol. vi., p. 106.
[135]. See the quotations from Sir Ch. Bell, Perez, First Three Years of Childhood, p. 63.
[136]. Preyer seems to regard this as instinctive. Op. cit., p. 131.
[137]. M. Perez (op. cit., p. 65) calls in the evolution hypothesis here, suggesting that the child, unlike the young animal, is so organised as to be more on the alert for dangers which are near at hand (auditory impressions) than for those at a distance (visual impressions). I confess, however, that I find this ingenious writer not quite convincing here.
[138]. This true fear of strangers must be distinguished from the later shyness, which, though akin to it, is a more complex feeling.
[139]. Op. cit., p. 131.
[140]. Le Roman d’un Enfant.
[141]. Quoted by Tracy, op. cit., p. 29. But this observation seems to me to need confirmation.
[142]. See The Pedagogical Seminary, i., No. 2, p. 220.
[143]. Quoted by Preyer, op. cit., p. 127. The word he uses is “scheuen”.