Dark, child’s fear of, 211, 462.
Destructiveness, as characteristic of child, 240.
Darwin, C., 139, 141, 146, 233 note, 407 note, 411 note, 417 note.
Deaf-mutes, gesture language of, 173, 175.
Death, child’s ideas respecting, 120, 463;
his feeling on witnessing, 237, 238, 496;
dread of losing mother by, 245;
his shrinking from, 478.
Defiance. _See_ Law.
De Quincey, T., 251.
Dialectic, child’s skill in, 275, 449, 460.
Dickens, Charles, 53.
Difference, dissimilarity, perception of, 67, 441.
Disappearance, puzzle of, for the child, 84;
child’s first ideas of, 444.
Discipline, moral, lying as related to, 258;
resistance to, 268;
criticism of, 275, 286;
child’s imitation of, 285;
problem of, 290.
Discrimination. _See_ Difference.
Disobedience, child’s attitude of. _See_ Law.
Distance, child’s inadequate ideas of, 99;
first perception of, 414.
Doll, place of, in child’s play, 42;
treatment of, by child, 43;
illusion of, 44, 492;
fear of, 204, 410.
Domenech, Abbé, 385 note.
Dramatic representation, effects of, on child, 315.
Drawings of children;
general characteristics of, 331;
crude beginnings of, 333;
first attempts at human figure, 335;
treatment of head, 335;
facial features, 337;
evolution of features, 340;
treatment of the trunk, 344;
of the arms, 348;
of the hand, 351;
of the legs, 354;
of the foot, 355;
introduction of profile elements, 356;
mixed schemes of human figure, 367;
representation of action, 369;
treatment of accessories, 370;
of animals, 372;
of man on horseback, 377;
of man in boat, house, etc., 380;
of house, 381;
_résumé_ of facts, 382;
defects of, 382;
showing what is invisible, 383, 392;
explanation of facts, 385;
mental process involved in, 385;
child’s observation as reflected in, 393;
his ideas of objects as illustrated in, 394;
rudiments of artistic value in, 396.
Dreams, child’s first ideas of, 103;
as excitants of fear, 218;
early examples of, 455, 481, 500, 505, 506.
Dress, child’s dislike of new, 202, 319, 410;
his treatment of, in drawings, 371.
Droz, G., 21.