ABSTRACT
The young child shows characteristic pictures in the intensity, persistency and distribution of the energies displayed in emotion and will. The energy of the momentary emotion and desire is often far greater in the child than in the adult. In dealing with the subject of effort it is much less possible than in any other to look upon the child solely as a miniature adult. The child who had been so timorous in her mortal fear summons up all her strength and shows utmost daring-and right judgment. The child's acts of will are not so much hostile interplay between the earliest feelings of impulse and instinct as their refinement, regulation and development; the child is only able to aim consciously at those ends which already exist as pronounced tendencies in the Unconscious. At no period of life is simple instruction and explanation so barren of results as in early childhood.
