Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Apperception or the Essential Mental Operation in the Act of Learning, an Essay on a Pot of Green Feathers
But I fell a thinking on the matter. Did the child really suppose that the ferns were feathers? Or did she rather use the name of a familiar thing to describe What she knew to be different, and yet noticed to be in some respects like?
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