The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Facts in the Comparative Development of the Child Children, according to common views, are looked upon as adults in small. Most parents never stop to thirk of the possibility or likelihood of their own mature condition being any different from the condi- tion of their little ones. This is somewhat remarkable, because the two are not, except in general ways, alike. Mo*eover, the whole world of animals seems to be sim.larly disposed so that the young require different conditions, different surroundings, different care, from the ordinary adult standard. Where the changes are very striking, as for instance, in the caterpillar, they are regarded as exceptions which bear no analogy in oth;r creatures. There the transition from the creep- ing rather plain-colored insect to the dormant, half- deed chrysalis, and then to the brilliant, fluttering butterfly, is so wonderful that even the dullest imagi- na;ion is touched; for the wonder inheres not only in changed appearance, but also in changed methods of locomotion, food, general manner of life.