Tiedemann's Record of Infant-Life

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is repugnant to me to think of a child as a mere machine. From my stand-point, Rousseau, who has well expressed the principle upon which child-psychology should rest, by cautioning us not to seek the man in the child, but to think of what he is before he becomes mau,.said that the newly-born infant, fettered by imperfect and but half-developed organs, is a purely sensuous being who has not even the feeling of his own ex Etence and with whom cries and movements are absolute mechanical effects, destitute of knowledge and will.