[445] See anecdote of Goethe’s youth, p. 105. For the destructive impulse in animals, see The Play of Animals, pp. 91, 200, 220.
[446] Saggi di psicologia del bambino, p. 118.
[447] L’éducation progressive, Paris, 1841, vol. i, p. 302.
[448] H. Emminghaus finds many points of resemblance between the period of life during which such actions are most rife and a condition of mania. (Die psychischen Störungen des Kindersalters, Tübingen, 1899, p. 179.)
[449] Fr. Scholz, Die charakterfehler des Kindes, Leipsic, 1891, pp. 148, 149. See F. L. Burk, Teasing and Bullying. The Pedagogical Seminary, vol. iv (1897), p. 341.
[450] See S. Sighele, Psychologie des Auflaufs u. der Massenverbrechen, Dresden, 1897, p. 13.
[451] A portion of this section appeared in the periodical Die Kinderfehler. It may be compared with Burk’s article on teasing and bullying, which was then unknown to me. The latter, however, is more concerned with serious than with playful aspects of the subject.
[452] The Play of Animals, p. 167.
[453] See Schneegan’s Geschichte der Grotesken Satire, p. 443.
[454] Leopold Wagner, Manners, Customs, and Observances, London, 1895, p. 34.