A person stands for a group of quite unstable experiences.

This period we may, for brevity of expression, assuming it to be first in order of development, call the "projective" stage in the growth of the child's personal consciousness.
It is from this beginning that the child goes on to become fully conscious of what persons are.

And when we observe his actions more closely we find no less than four steps in his growth, which, on account of the importance of the topic, may be stated in some little detail.
1.

The first thing of significance to him, as has been said, is _movement_.

The first attempts of the infant at anything like steady attention are directed to moving things--a swaying curtain, a moving light, a stroking touch, etc.