Concerning Children

Index.

Absence of mind, 54.
"Acquired traits not transmissible," 9.
- experiments with guinea-pigs, 11.
Action, bodily, directed by mental processes, 57.
Adult, our houses built only for the, 121.
Age, the presumption of, 156.
- not necessarily superiority, 159.
Aged persons, cause of the respect and care for, 160.
Ambition of youth a force to lift mankind, the, 23.
American Revolution, the, mentioned, 35.
Animal mother, the authority of the, 42.
Animals, obedience in, 29.
Arbitrary punishment, effect on the moral sense of, 84.
Authority of the animal mother, the, 42.
- effect of, coming between the mind and action of the child, 60.

Babies confided to the care of lower races, 134.
Baby, impressions of a, 49.
- considered as a plaything, 175.
- our disrespectful treatment of the, 171.
- often neglected mind-growth of the, 250.
Baby-garden, a public, 124.
- example of the advantages of a, 139.
- a private, 125.
Babyhood, education not thought of in connection with, 135.
Bible, the, 114.
Biological advantage of a longer period of immaturity, the, 18.
- law of reproduction, 296.
Bodily action directed by mental processes, 57.
Boston, 289.
Brain, effect of obedience on the, 41.
- training of children, the, 46.
- the office of the, 47.
- in early forms of life, 48.
- function of the child, 49.
- improvement, progress of humanity made through, 149.
Breakfast, unpunctuality at, 149.
Bushmen, the, 293.

Callous child, treatment of the, 92.
Casabianca, 30.
Census Report, United States, 233.
Character, comparatively small progress in the human, 251.
- development of, assisted by right education, 252.
Chastity, the virtue of, 26.
Child, importance of the first fifteen years of the life of the, 21.
- exercise of the will of the, in games, 22.
- trained to obey, 31.
- reasons why obedience is demanded from the, 37.
- brain function of the, 49.
- the, should be trained to presence of mind, 55.
- advantage taken of the credulity of the, 56.
- what the, feels and thinks ignored, 57.
- the mind of the, 57.
- effect of authority coming between the mind and action of the, 60.
- culture of the, 63.
- table manners, teaching the, 63.
- early impressions of a, 116.
Example better than precept, 51.
Experience, 167.

Faith, a childish expression of, 56.
Father, the, awake to the duties of social parentage, 283.
- the choice of a, 264.
Family, attitude towards the little child of the, 171.
- -life, primitive mental habits fostered in, 169.
Feminine conservatism, 169.
Foolishness of youth due to our training, 21.
French Revolution, the, 53.

Habit and tradition, the home the stronghold of, 35.
Hebrew traditions of God, 34.
Home, the, the stronghold of habit and tradition, 35.
- as a place for children, 130.
Homes, the mother the domestic servant in the majority of, 233.
Honesty lacking in child-training, 110.
Horse-training, 71.
Hottentots, the, 293.
Household, physical conditions of the, a danger to the child, 238.
- labour, mental capacities developed by, 247.
  - employment of skilled labour for, 276.
Houses not built for children, 120.
- built for the adult only, 121.
House-service and child-culture, the relation between, 233.
- qualities developed by, 243.
Housework, few women like, 245.
Human behaviour, the whole scale of, is natural, 256.
- character, comparatively small progress in the, 251.
- conduct, the word natural applied to, 257.
- creature, mental workings of the, 50.
  - a self-governing intelligence, 40.
- parentage, selfishness of, 178.
- -parenthood, prolonged, 8.
- progress, youth the fountain of, 21.
- rights, children to understand the balance of, 188.
- status, permanence of childhood as a, 119.
- stock, improving the, 263.
- being, the, a social constituent, 19.
  - who does not work contemptible, the, 275.
Humanity, degrees of, 3.
- to improve, 6.
- the time to develop the inheritance of, 17.
- progress of, made through brain improvement, 149.
Humour, errors of the child not grounds for, 172.