Better Gutenberg
Free, beautifully formatted public-domain ebooks

Studies of Childhood

by James Sully

53 sections · Download EPUB

Start reading ›
  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — Introductory
  3. 3II — The Age of Imagination
  4. 4Imaginative Transformation of Objects
  5. 5Imagination and Play
  6. 6Free Projection of Fancies
  7. 7Imagination and Storyland
  8. 8III — The Dawn of Reason
  9. 9The Questioning Age
  10. 10IV — Products of Child-Thought
  11. 11Psychological Ideas
  12. 12Theological Ideas
  13. 13V — The Little Linguist
  14. 14Transition to Articulate Speech
  15. 15Beginnings of Linguistic Imitation
  16. 16Transformations of Our Words
  17. 17Logical Side of Children’s Language
  18. 18Sentence-building
  19. 19Getting at Our Meanings
  20. 20VI — Subject to Fear
  21. 21Startling Effect of Sounds
  22. 22Fear of Visible Things
  23. 23The Fear of Animals
  24. 24Fear of the Dark
  25. 25Fears and Their Palliatives
  26. 26VII — Raw Material of Morality
  27. 27Germs of Altruism
  28. 28Children’s Lies
  29. 29VIII — Under Law
  30. 30On the Side of Law
  31. 31The Wise Law-giver
  32. 32IX — The Child as Artist
  33. 33Early Attitude Towards Art
  34. 34Beginnings of Art-production
  35. 35X — The Young Draughtsman
  36. 36First Drawings of the Human Figure
  37. 37Front and Side View of Human Figure
  38. 38First Drawings of Animals
  39. 39Men on Horseback, etc.
  40. 40Résumé of Facts
  41. 41Explanation of Facts
  42. 42XI — Extracts From a Father’s Diary
  43. 43First Year
  44. 44Second Year
  45. 45Third Year
  46. 46Fourth Year
  47. 47Fifth Year
  48. 48Sixth Year
  49. 49XII — George Sand’s Childhood
  50. 50The Grandmother’s Regime
  51. 51A Self-evolved Religion
  52. 52Bibliography
  53. 53(B) Special Works

← Back to Studies of Childhood

Scroll to Top