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Excerpt from Tiedemann's Record of Infant-Life: An English Version of the French Translation and Commentary
Pleasure; heretofore a smile had been the sign of contentment; now it is replaced by a pronounced laugh. The feeling (ought he to use the word feeling here of tickling shows itself, but only in the abdomen and not on the sole of the foot. Tiedemann ascribes this progress to the development and the comparison of ideas which render certain pleasant impressions more distinct. We should remember in regard to this the obser vation made by Darwin on his child when he was a week old, who withdrew his foot quickly when his father touched the sole of his foot with a piece of paper. When the child was two months and seventeen days old the teeth began to grow and called forth, according to Tiedemann, new ideas and facul ties: previous to this time the hands had been much less occupied than the eyes, but the pains in the mouth caused the child to put his fingers there continually, and also the objects which he had taken hold of; thus the child learned to grasp firmly, al' though with greatest uncertainty. As yet.
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