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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER IV
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One further incident to show this: when the baby's hat was put on--the real hat--mamma tied the strings rather tight.

"Oh! you hurt, mamma," said baby.

"No; mamma wouldn't draw the strings too tight.

Let mamma kiss it.

There, is that better, my darling ?"--all comically true to a certain sweet maternal tenderness which I had no difficulty in tracing.
Now in such a case what is to be reported, of course, is the facts.
Yet knowledge of more than the facts is necessary, as I have said above, in order to get the full psychological lesson.


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