James Mark Baldwin 1895 Mental Development In Child

PRINCETON, N. J. Division \.^. I '.. £_«. 1 Section.,.X^. … \. O ■ -^ Shelf. Number MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHILD AND THE RACE METHODS AND PROCESSES.mm MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CHILD AND THE RACE METHODS AND PROCESSES BY JAMES MARK BALDWIN, M.A., Ph.D. Stuart Professor of Psychology in Princeton University; Author of "Handbook of Psychology," "Elements of Psychology"; Co-Editor of "The Psychological Review" WITH SEVENTEEN FIGURES AND TEN TABLES N£h3 gorfe MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON All rights reserved Copyright, 1894, By MACMILLAN AND CO. Norfajaoti ^9rfS3: J. S. Gushing & Co. Berwick & Smith. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. FILIOLIS. MEIS PREFACE In writing this book I have had rather conflicting aims. It was begun as a series of articles reporting observations on infants, published in part in the journal Science, 1890-1892. In the prosecution of this purpose, however, I found it necessary constantly to enlarge my scope for the entertainment of a widened genetic view. This came to clearer consciousness in the treatment of the child's imitations, especially when I came to the relation of imitation to volition, as treated in my paper before the London Congress of Experimental Psychology in 1892. The farther study of this subject brought what was to me such a revelation of the genetic function of imitation that I then determined — under the inspiration, also, o…