Early childhood / by Margaret Mcmillan.

  • Margaret McMillan
Date:
1900
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Credit: Early childhood / by Margaret Mcmillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that young children make large movements as com- pared with older people, and obviously possess only a very limited amount of control, he permitted them to draw, not with one hand only, but with both arms and both hands 1 The wisdom of the latter step can be questioned only by those who ignore the closeness of the relations that exist between the various parts and members of the body. To exercise the right hand is to exercise at the same time an area of the left side of the brain. To speak is to increase the energy of the right side of the body. Many people become excited through the mere act of speaking, more especially if their speech is accompanied by gestures of the arm and hand. Fere points out that if one makes with the foot certain movements on a pedal, the force of the corresponding hand is soon much increased—later, even the energy of the other hand is augmented — that is to say the movement of one member reinforces every member. The movement itself is a stimulus, and may give rise to much finer orders of movement. When a deaf mute has gesticulated with energy for some time he nearly always gives vent to an inarti- culate sound —that is to say he touches the border- land of Language. The exercise of any member, then —of any cerebral
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