And further than this, the moving things soon become more than objects of curiosity; these things are just the things that affect him with pleasure or pain.

It is movement that brings him his bottle, movement that regulates the stages of his bath, movement that dresses him comfortably, movement that sings to him and rocks him to sleep.

In that complex of sensations, the nurse, the feature of importance to him, of immediate satisfaction or redemption from pain, is this--movements come to succour him.

Change in his bodily feeling is the vital requirement of his life, for by it the rhythm of his vegetative existence is secured; and these things are accompanied and secured always in the moving presence of the one he sees and feels about him.

This, I take it, is the earliest reflection in his consciousness of the world of personalities about him.