The child : its spiritual nature / by Henry King Lewis.

  • Lewis, Henry King.
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The child : its spiritual nature / by Henry King Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He lies upon his back and crows, Or looks with grave eyes on his mother, What can he mean ? But I suppose They understand each other. Indoors or out, early or late. There is no limit to his sway, For wrapped in baby robes of state. He governs night and day. Kisses he takes as rightful due. And, Turk-like, has his slaves to dress him. His subjects bend before him too, I’m one of them. God bless him ! The following observations and original facts, some- what roughly classified, include the sayings of small children, and the childhood of persons who became remarkable; together with some of the conclusions arrived at by careful and earnest investigators. Many of these facts especially afford illustrations of the qualities and tendencies of the child, as a spiritual being. They are selected primarily as foreshadowing the mature individual as he would be, unbiassed by undue social influences, wise or otherwise, and untrammeled by the artificialities of modern education. Ineffaceahleness of early impressions. The earliest impressions on the mind of a child, whether sensuous, mental, or spiritual, are very deep.