The tiniest of tots may be seen thus toddling round with burdens half their own size.

Like the dot upon the little i, the baby's head seems a natural part of their childish ego.
An economy of the kind in the matter of nurses is highly suggestive.
That it should be practicable thus to entrust one infant to another proves the precociousness of children.

But this surprising maturity of the young implies by a law too well known to need explanation, the consequent immaturity of the race.

That which has less to grow up to, naturally grows up to its limit sooner.

It may even be questioned whether it does not do so with the more haste; on the same principle that a runner who has less distance to travel not only accomplishes his course quicker, but moves with relatively greater speed, or as a small planet grows old not simply sooner, but comparatively faster than a larger one.