[154]. It is supposable too that disturbances of the retina giving rise to subjective luminous sensations, as the well-known small bright moving discs, might assist in the case of nervous children in suggesting glaring eyes.
[155]. See Perez, L’Education dès le berceau, pp. 96-99. On animal fears, see further Romanes, Animal Intelligence, p. 455 f.; Preyer, op. cit., p. 127 ff. and p. 135; Perez, First Three Years of Childhood, p. 64 ff.
[156]. See Compayré, op. cit., pp. 99, 100.
[157]. On this point there are some excellent observations made by Miss Shinn, who points out that physical pain when not too severe is apt to be lost sight of in the new feeling of personal consequence to which it gives rise (Notes on the Development of a Child, pt. ii., p. 144 ff.)
[158]. Pedagogical Review, ii., 3, p. 445.
[159]. p. 43.
[160]. Some examples are given by Preyer, op. cit., p. 135.
[161]. Miss Shinn, op. cit., p. 150.
[162]. Stevenson, the same who has described the terrors of moving shadows, illustrates how a child may make a sort of playfellow of his shadow (A Child’s Garden of Verses, xviii.).