[183]. Sara E. Wiltshire, The Christian Union, vol. xl., No. 26.
[184]. Perez gives a similar story, only that the epithet ‘vilaine’ was here transferred to ‘l’eau’. L’Education dès le berceau, p. 53.
[185]. Perez, L’Education dès le berceau, p. 54.
[186]. M. Motet was one of the first to call attention to the forces of childish imagination and the effects of suggestion in the false testimonies of children. Les Faux Temoignages des Enfants devant la Justice, 1887. The subject has been further elucidated by Dr. Bérillon.
[187]. See Stanley Hall, loc. cit., p. 68 f.
[188]. Loc. cit.
[189]. Cf. what Mrs. Fry says, Uninitiated (‘A Discovery in Morals’).
[190]. Stanley Hall, when he speaks of certain forms of lying as prevalent among children, is, as he expressly explains, speaking of children at school, where the forces of contagion are in full swing.
[191]. I seem to detect possible openings for the play of imitation in many of the indisputably conscious falsehoods reported by Perez, P. Lombroso, and others.