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 NOTES AND COEEESPONDENCE. 149 ality of self and others, of the different possibilities of origination, enhance- ment, lowering, suppression of conation, of "disillusionings" and the comic, lastly of the mental movement proceeding from the representation of that which is striven for and terminating in action. Here again psychical measurements had to be considered and pointed out in detail. But the whole falls, just like the investigations of the "flow of repre- sentations," under the conception of the mechanics of representation rest- ing on Association. The same is true also of the contents of the last chapter, which has to do I admit, only in very broad outlines, with the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, with love and hatred, the tragic and the comic, that is to say, with the fundamental moral and aesthetic conceptions. That Ethics grows out of Psychology and also how it grows, to show this was the principal end of this chapter. " The foregoing is not intended to give the contents of the book, but only to point out that the book has contents. Let me be pardoned for having spoken so self-consciously ; I was compelled to do so. I am not anxious that my views should be accepted. But I do claim that in the book I have willed to produce something of my own, and that I have done it to some purpose." FIRST NOTIONS OF THE UNSEEN IN A CHILD. The following notes may interest some readers of MIND. My little son has never been taught anything whatever of the supernatural, so that what notions concerning unseen powers he has or has had are of perfectly spon- taneous growth. The first positive sign he gave me of having any ideas of this sort occurred last November when he was one year and ten months old. He had never in the least objected to being put to bed in the dark, but I suppose it at this time had begun to have certain terrors for him, for he suddenly one night soon after he had been put to bed set up a most dismal howl. I went at once to him and asked him what he was crying about. He was comforted at once on hearing my voice, and answered promptly " 'bout Cocky ". I assured him that " Cocky " was far away at Bradfield, alluding to a country place from which he had lately come, and where the cocks and hens, all known as " Cocky," had been very particular friends of his, and where he used to be quite willing to visit them alone. But from this time forth " Cocky " was and is the name used by him to distinguish the creature of his imagination, though the " Cocky " of real life still remains with him an object of affection. This and the next few nights were the only nights he objected to his dark bed- room. After that it did not strike him as terrible, and he has since always been put to bed quite in the dark without the slightest sign of fear. The next night, or only a few nights after, I was walking upstairs, with him a few steps in front of me, past the door of the bath-room in which the cistern was making rather mysterious hissing noises. He hurried past it quite quickly for his little legs, half looking back all the time, and said to me, " Cocky in 'ere ". " Cocky " now became partially localised in the bath-room. A few days after we were passing the room by daylight. He was now in an extremely brave and propitiative mood and ran in boldly and kissed at the air in the room and said to me self-complacently " Hennie kiss Cocky ". " Hennie " is his 'name for himself, a corruption|for Henry. A few days after we again passed the room by daylight. He had some little toy in his hand. He was now in a less brave but in an equally pro- pitiative mood. He thrust his little hand through the half-closed door and threw in the toy, laughing rather hysterically and saying, " Hennie give toy Cocky ". But the bath-room was not always an awful room, and seems now that he is two years and four months old not to be remembered