The second result of this imitative learning about personality is of equal importance.

When the child has taken up an action by imitation and made it subjective, finding out that personality has an inside, something more than the mere physical body, then he reads this fact back into the other persons also.

He says to himself: "He too, my little brother, must have _in him_ a sense of agency similar to this of mine.

He acts imitatively, too; he has pleasures and pains; he shows sympathy for me, just as I do for him.

So do all the persons with whom I have become so far acquainted.