The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

[618] See G. F. Pfisterer, Pädagogische Psychologie, second edition, Gutersloh, 1889, p. 146.

[619] A. Kohler (Der Kindergarten in seinem Wesen dargestellt) says, however, that the child’s longing to associate with others of its own age is so strong as to require daily satisfaction (Pfisterer, op. cit., p. 145).

[620] Pfisterer, op. cit., p. 147.

[621] Op. cit., p. 65.

[622] Studies in Childhood, p. 268.

[623] Handbuch der praktischen Pädagogik, p. 699.

[624] A. Marty finds, as does Whitney, the impulse for communication an essential for the origin of the so much more varied language of men than of animals. Ueber Sprachreflex, Nativismus und absichtliche Sprachbildung. Vierteljahreschr. f. wissensch. Philos., vol. xiv (1890), p. 66.

[625] Op. cit., p. 228.

[626] Chamberlain, op. cit., pp. 260, 263.

[627] Ibid.