The day may come when the rest of animal creation may acquire those rights which could never have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny...a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
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Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
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To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between.
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spon...
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If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted ...
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Original Poems for Infant Minds My Mother Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.
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I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cru...
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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Perchance not he but Nature ailed, The world and not the infant failed....
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It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.
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