[578] Mental Development, p. 362 (omitted from the German version).
[579] Thus, to mention one example, Marie G—— had no sooner adopted a small thermometer as a baby than she spied the tassel which it hung up by, and called everybody’s attention to its lovely head.
[580] The Japanese collection in the Berlin Museum is the finest that I have ever seen.
[581] See J. Walter Fewkes, Dolls of the Tusayan Indians. Int. Arch. f. Ethnogr., vol. vii (1894). Fewkes is very careful about committing himself on this point.
[582] Op. cit., p. 254.
[583] Unter den Naturvölkern Central-Brasiliens, p. 230.
[584] Ibid.
[585] Op. cit., p. 98. See also Sully’s Studies, p. 333.
[586] Op. cit., p. 195.
[587] See on this point Grosse’s Anfänge der Kunst and the chapter on The Young Draughtsman in Sully’s Studies of Childhood. If space allowed I could give similar particulars of my nephew Max K——’s work. In this boy the artistic impulse all turned to the representation of animals, in which he became a master. He took the great scissors and cut away almost without looking, and with every turn of the shears he turned his body too (an instance of the outer effects of inner imitation).