The Study of the Child

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Excerpt from The Study of the Child: A Brief Treatise on the Psychology of the Child, With Suggestions for Teachers, Students, and Parents The constant use of the symbol tends to con vert it into a conventional sign of the spiritual meaning. Anima, at first conveyed the idea of breath, before passing to that of soul. The mind gradually shortened its contemplation of the phys ical meaning and prolonged its stay on the spir itual meaning and laid greater stress on it. By and by it forgot altogether the physical or mate rial meaning, and went from the word directly to the idea of vital energy moving the body and pos sessing thought and feeling. So at last the word anima came to be the conventional sign for soul and lost its symbolic use. The material meaning was forgotten. With increasing strength of mind the child grasps relations more and more fully, and by this his conceptions become less and less mere pictures. This is the way that he outgrows the symbolic stage of thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.