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i86 The Century of the Child
tributed to its extension. He has done so
partly by a comprehensive study of child-
ren’s language, partly by collecting recollec-
tions of childhood on the part of the adult.
Finally he experimented directly on the child,
investigating his physical and psychical fa-
tigue and endurance, acuteness of sensation,
power, speed, and exactness in carrying out
physical and mental tasks. He has studied
his capacity of attention in emotions and in
ideas at different periods of life. He has
studied the speech of children, association of
ideas in children, etc. During the study of
the psychology of the child, scholars began to
substitute for this term the expression " gene-
tic psychology." For it v^^as found that the
bio-genetic principle was valid for the develop-
ment both of the psychic and the physical life.
This principle means that the history of the
species is repeated in the history of the indi-
vidual ; a truth substantiated in other spheres
;
in philology for example. The psychology of
the child is of the same significance for gen-
eral psychology as embryology is for anatomy.
On the other hand, the description of savage
peoples, of peoples in a natural condition,
such as we find in Spencer’s Descriptive So-
ciology or Weitz’s Anthropology is extremely
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