The Three First Years of Childhood

Abstract

THE earliest years of infancy are of importance to two classes of inquirers—to the educator who knows how much evil results irom the wrong treatment of young children, and to the evolutionist who, rejecting the tabula rasa of Locke, looks to infancy as the time freest from any effect of artificial training. In the study of other men's minds the observer is as likely as not to be purposely deceived by them, whereas deceit is an accomplishment which few infants have attained to. The Three First Years of Childhood. By Bernard Perez. Edited and translated by Alice M. Christie. With an introduction by James Sully, M.A. (London: W. S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1885.)