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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER IV
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The sense of _personal agency_ is now forming, and it again is potent for still further development of the social consciousness.

It is just here, I think, that imitation becomes so important in the child's life.

This is imitation's opportunity.

The infant watches to see how others act, because his own weal and woe depends upon this "how"; and inasmuch as he knows not what to anticipate, his mind is open to every suggestion of movement.

So he falls to imitating.


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