The Kindergarten Journal, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Kindergarten Journal, 1910 One of the interesting and absorbing subjects of discussion for scholars of modern times has been, and still is, the place which the primitive savage occupies in the history of mankind. This science which studies the human family from its infancy, thousands of years ago, to the present time, in its progress of culture, contributed to by myth, legend, language and custom, is called the science of Folk-Lore. The savage in his very lowest state was occupied with nothing more than supplying his physical needs, but as he very slowly and gradually ascended in the scale of humanity he began to do some thinking, and to deserve the name of "man," which means "to think." He began to perceive the world which surrounded him with its great mountain heights and valleys; its lakes and rivers; its birds and animals; trees and plants. His ear began to be trained to the various sounds of nature; the rumble of thunder; the roar of the sea; the rustle of the leaves on the trees; and the trickling of the tiny rivulet down the hillside. He began to wonder about it and then to ask himself the cause. Then came the attempt to explain it. What was more natural than to endow all external forces with life? He saw likenesses between himself and this phenomena of nature. His great imagination supplied qualities and faculties like his own, such as feeling, willing, hearing and speaking. It was life answering to life without the power to explain; consequently all things were personified. I think we will all agree that the childhood of humanity presents us with a magnified picture of the small boy and girl of today. The little girl bestows fond mother love on a piece of muslin roiled up to look like a doll; while the boy rides a piece of a broomstick and imagines he is making a journey into an unknown world on a fine black charger. This same imagination permitted the savage to interpret all things around him thru analogy. He lived, surrounded by great jungles inhabited by huge, fierce beasts, and water in which lived other wild animals. They seemed to possess powers far beyond those of himself. They could run and fly and swim with incredible swiftness. They were wonderful in their strength. No wonder then that man considered them his superiors and regarded them with awe and fear. He was often inadequately armed and unable to cope with them in battle, consequently he was a slave to these beliefs in nature´s powers. One author tells us that "In a cave in France supposed by geologists to be 100,000 years old may be seen the oldest extant picture of man. It represents a very small man, naked and defenseless, fleeing in terror from an enormous serpent. It is the true image of primitive man in his relationship to Nature, and touches the heart with its vivid expression of feebleness and fear." These outside natural objects were very powerful forces in developing early history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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