ABSTRACT
W E have seen that a sentiment is an organised system of emotional dispositions centred about the idea of some object. The organisation of the sentiments in the developing mind is determined by the course of experience ; that is to say, the sentiment is a growth in the structure of the mind that is not natively given in the inherited constitution. This is certainly true in the main, though the maternal sentiment might almost seem to be innate ; but we have to remember that in the human mother this sentiment may, and gener ally does, begin to grow up about the idea of its object, before the child is born.1
