The Meaning of Infancy
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Duringprenatal life there is not time enough for all these nervousregistrations, and so by degrees it comes about that he is bornwith his nervous system perfectly capable only of making himbreathe and digest food, --of making him do the things absolutelyrequisite for supporting life; instead of being born with a certainnumber of definite developed capacities, he has a number ofpotentialities which have got to be roused according to his ownindividual experience. Pursuing that line of thought, it... beganafter a while to seem clear to me that the infancy of the animal ina very undeveloped condition, with the larger part of his facultiesin potentiality rather than in actuality, was a direct result ofthe increase of intelligence, and I began to see that now we havetwo steps: first, natural selection goes on increasing theintelligence; and secondly, when the intelligence goes far enough, it makes a longer infancy, a creature is born less developed, andtherefore there comes this plastic period during which he is moreteachable.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Duringprenatal life there is not time enough for all these nervousregistrations, and so by degrees it comes about that he is bornwith his nervous system perfectly capable only of making himbreathe and digest food, --of making him do the things absolutelyrequisite for supporting life; instead of being born with a certainnumber of definite developed capacities, he has a number ofpotentialities which have got to be roused according to his ownindividual experience. Pursuing that line of thought, it... beganafter a while to seem clear to me that the infancy of the animal ina very undeveloped condition, with the larger part of his facultiesin potentiality rather than in actuality, was a direct result ofthe increase of intelligence, and I began to see that now we havetwo steps: first, natural selection goes on increasing theintelligence; and secondly, when the intelligence goes far enough, it makes a longer infancy, a creature is born less developed, andtherefore there comes this plastic period during which he is moreteachable.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Fiske, John, 1842-1901 to read onlineMoreLess
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