ABSTRACT
Experiment shows that the earliest phase in childhood is to believe that everything that happens is due to some one's intention; that everything, in nature as well as human action, is done because some one wants it done. Anthropologists have shown how primitive man also looks for intention or will behind every natural event. He believes that rain or thunder or danger at sea, attack by wild beasts or sickness are all the result of semi-human and capricious willing, benevolent or spiteful intention. The Child Guidance Movement which began in America is one of the first practical results of the growing realization that a great number of our actions are not deliberately willed. The United States believed that by an Act of Congress people could be prevented from drinking, but all the State and Federal police forces in America could not prevent it. Modern sociology maintains that what determines how people behave is not the willed command of the Government.
