n circumstances just as simply useful to us--that we have
anything for which to be grateful.

In each new experience we find it the same, the healthy baby yields,
_lets himself go,_ with an case which must double his chances for
comfort. Could we but learn to do so, our lives would lengthen, and our
joys and usefulness strengthen in exact proportion.

All through the age of unconsciousness, this physical freedom is
maintained even where the mental attitude is not free. Baby wrath is as
free and economical of physical force as are the winsome moods, and
this until the personality has developed to some extent,--that is,
_until the child reflects the contractions of those around him._ It
expends itself in well-balanced muscular exercise, one set of muscles
resting fully in their moment of non-use, while another set takes up
the battle. At times it will seem that all wage war together; if so,
the rest is equal to the action.

It is not the purpose of this chapter to recommend anger, even of the
most approved sort; but if we will express the emotion at all, let us
do it as well as we did in our infancy!

Channels so free as this would necessitate, would lessen our
temptations to such expression; we, with mature intellects, would see
it for what it is, and the next generation of babies would less often
exercise their wonderfully balanced little bodies in such an unlovely
waste.

Note the perfect openness of a baby throat as the child coos out his
expression of happiness. Could anything be more free, more like the
song of a bird in its obedience to natural laws? Alas, for how much
must we answer that these throats are so soon contracted, the tones
changed to so high a pitch, the voice becoming so shrill and harsh! Can
we not open our throats and become as these little children?

The same _openness_ in the infant organism is the child's protection in
many dangers. Falls that would result in breaks, strains, or sprains in
us, leave the baby entirely whole save in its "feelings," and often
there, too, if the child has been kept in the true state mentally.

Watch a baby take its food, and contrast it with our own ways of
eating. The baby draws it in slowly and evenly, with a quiet rhythm
which is in exact accord with the rhythmic action of its digestive
organs. You feel each swallow taken in the best way for repair, and for
this reason it seems sometimes as if one could see a baby grow while
feeding. There cannot be a love