A Sketch of Individual Development

[Footnote: 1880.]

"I wish I had thought to watch when God was making me! " said a child once to his mother. "Only," he added, "I was not made till I was finished, so I couldn't. " We cannot recall whence we came, nor tell how we began to be. We know approximately how far back we can remember, but have no idea how far back we may not have forgotten. Certainly we knew once much that we have forgotten now. My own earliest definable memory is of a great funeral of one of the Dukes of Gordon, when I was between two and three years of age. Surely my first knowledge was not of death. I must have known much and many things before, although that seems my earliest memory.