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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

grew strong and enlarged his stock of experience. Throughout it all, however, he did not seem to realize that he was a person distinct from the other persons in his circle of acquaintances. At first he did not even know that his feet and ears and the other parts of his body were really a part of him-self. He pulled and tugged at them just as he pulled at his playthings, and he often hurt himself. Then when he began to think, he did not know that every-one else did not share his thoughts. EARLY CHILDHOOD 29 But now, since his experience has broadened, he becomes conscious of the difference between "mine" and "yours." In the occasional conflict of wills he discovers that he does not have to submit to the will of his mother unless he wishes to do so. He learns that he possesses a personality of his own. When this feeling of being an individual comes, it shows itself in his conduct. It does not come to all children at the same time nor to the same degree. Thus the acts which tell us that it is present vary greatly. If the child is tired

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