Abstraction, abstract ideas, beginnings of, 443;
growth of, 483.
Acting, relation of, to play, 36, 326;
as early form of art, 323;
first attempts at, 434, 496.
_See_ Dramatic representation.
Activity, action. _See_ Movement.
Adjectives, first use of, 171, 427.
Adornment, child’s instinct of, 318.
_See_ Dress.
Æsthetic aspect of child, 2;
feelings of child, 300, 397, 409, 451.
_See_ Art.
Affirmation, sign of, 417.
After-images, child’s ideas of, 102, 465.
Altruism, germs of, in child, 242.
_See_ Sympathy.
Amiel, H. F., 3.
Andree, R., 337 note, 338, 345 note, 348 note, 352 note, 379, 381 note.
Anger, early manifestations of, 232, 407, 432.
Animal, child compared with, 5;
ideas of child respecting, 123;
dread of musical sounds by, 195;
fear of uncaused movements by, 205, 220;
child’s fear of, 207, 433;
child’s ill-treatment of, 239;
his sympathy with, 247, 460, 475, 485;
recognition of portraits by, 309;
care of body by, 318;
child’s mode of drawing, 372;
his liking for, 450.
Animism, of nature-man, 104;
traces of, in child-thought, 480.
Anthropocentric ideas of child, 82, 98, 102, 427.
Anthropomorphic ideas of children, 79.
Anti-social tendencies of child, 230.
Antithesis, child’s use of, 174, 429, 442.
Argument. _See_ Dialectic.
Arms, child’s manner of drawing, 348;
treatment of, in profile representation, 362.
Art;
art-impulse of child, 298;
first responses to natural beauty, 300;
pleasure of light and colour, 300;
germ of æsthetic feeling for form, 303;
feeling for flowers, 305;
feeling for scenery, 306;
rudimentary appreciation of art, 307;
effects of music, 308;
interpretation of pictures, 309;
understanding of stories, 314;
realism of child, 314;
attitude towards dramatic spectacle, 315;
feeling for comedy and tragedy, 316;
beginnings of art-production, 318;
love of adornment, 318;
grace in action, 321;
relation of art to play, 321, 326;
germ of imitative art, 323;
invention, 325;
roots of artistic impulse, 327.
Artfulness of children, 272.
Articulation, first rudimentary, 135;
transition to true, 138;
defects of early, 148, 418;
process of, 154;
growth of, 158, 416, 427, 439, 467.
_See_ Language.
Assertion, child’s manner of making, 457, 471.
_See_ Sentence.
Assimilation. _See_ Similarity.
—— phonetic, 156.
Association of ideas, in imaginative transformation of objects, 32;
seen in extension of names, 164;
first manifestations of, 405.
Assonance, in early vocalisation, 137.