[Vampiromud-bug-hunters] {Spam?} To approach them still nearer by a compariso

Thu Jan 14 15:08:23 CET 2010

Nd then withdraws. This is the first intelligible jest of jesting man.
An infant never meets your eyes; he evidently does not remark the
features of faces near him. Whether because of the greater
conspicuousness of dark hair or dark hat, or for some like reason, he
addresses his looks, his laughs, and apparently his criticism, to the
heads, not the faces, of his friends. These are the ways of all infants,
various in character, parentage, race, and colour; they do the same
things. There are turns in a kitten's play--arched leapings and sidelong
jumps, graceful rearings and grotesque dances--which the sacred kittens
of Egypt used in their time. But not more alike are these repetitions
than the impulses of all young children learning to laugh. In regard to
the child of a somewhat later growth, we are told much of his effect
upon the world; not much of the effect of the world upon him. Yet he is
compelled to endure the reflex results, at least, of all that pleases,
distresses, or oppresses the world. That he should be obliged to suffer
the moods of men is a more important thing than that men should be
amused by his moods. If he is saddened, that is certainly much more than
that his elders should be gladdened. It is doubtless hardly possible
that children should go altogether free of human affairs. They might, in
mere justice, be spared the burden they bear ignorantly and simply when
it is laid upon them, of
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