Mental development and education . o play an important part in the mating ofanimals is perhaps better explained as being due to the overflowof energy not used in reproduction, which modifies certain physio-logical processes and sensory-motor activities so as to producebright colors with beauty of form and grace of movement. In man the aesthetic instinct has played an important partin mental development and in history. It is one of the moststriking examples of an instinct developed beyond the necessitiesof physical survival and to an extent that makes it, in many 295 296 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND
Mental development and education . o play an important part in the mating ofanimals is perhaps better explained as being due to the overflowof energy not used in reproduction, which modifies certain physio-logical processes and sensory-motor activities so as to producebright colors with beauty of form and grace of movement. In man the aesthetic instinct has played an important partin mental development and in history. It is one of the moststriking examples of an instinct developed beyond the necessitiesof physical survival and to an extent that makes it, in many 295 296 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION instances, stronger than the desire for food or the fear of , Genetic Psychology, p. 104. 2. What does Wordsworth imply in his well-known phrase, —The child is father of the man? Does Milton express thesame view when he says that Childhood shows the man asmorning shows the day ? 3. The pupils shown in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 69)look forward with great delight to the daily period devoted to. lM( 69. All Iiiiklrin arc very lond of throwing stones at human or other targets.(Sec exercise 3.) throwing stones. What is the basis of this interest? Shouldprovision be made for all young persons, boys as well as girls,to throw stones ? Why ? 4. The young tramps shown in Fig. 3, p. 29, are bummingtheir way across the country. What is the force which impelsthem to forsake home and friends and undergo the perils andhardships of this precarious life ? 5. Figure 4, p. 31, shows the pupils in the Organic Educationschool at Fairhope, Alabama, dramatizing Indian life. What isthe basis of childrens interest in tliis kinrl of activity? MOTI\E FORCES IN DEVELOPIMENT 297 6. What motive forces sustain the children in the activitiesshown in Fig. 2, p. 25? 7. Account for the profound interest described in the follow-ing: *In a summer resort where the writer was a visitor the pastsummer, day after day the whole male population of the hotelresorted to the fishing
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