Babyhood . orm are put inplace; and it is only when the childcan reason from experience that itbecomes responsible and should beexpected to control to some extentits imagination.—B. Goethe on Perhaps nowhere Association with does Goethe show Children. mQre clearly h{s keen and careful observation of characterthan in the description of the changeproduced in Wilhelm Meister by hisassociation with his child. He repre-sents Wilhelm as viewing his nurser- ies and buildings with new interest,,and as zealously contemplating re~pair of what had long been neglected. He no longer looked on the worldwith
Babyhood . orm are put inplace; and it is only when the childcan reason from experience that itbecomes responsible and should beexpected to control to some extentits imagination.—B. Goethe on Perhaps nowhere Association with does Goethe show Children. mQre clearly h{s keen and careful observation of characterthan in the description of the changeproduced in Wilhelm Meister by hisassociation with his child. He repre-sents Wilhelm as viewing his nurser- ies and buildings with new interest,,and as zealously contemplating re~pair of what had long been neglected. He no longer looked on the worldwith the eyes of a bird of passage;everything that he proposed com-mencing was to be completed for hisboy. In this sense his apprentice-ship was ended; with the feeling ofa father he had acquired all the vir~tue of a citizen. To Wilhelm itseemed as if the observation of hischild gave him his first clear view ofhuman nature; the questions littleFelix asked of him stimulated himto further achievements. Thus the. Babys Teeth
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