The Young Child

Behind the dreamy, astonished or delighted eyes of the little child are hidden depths of experience which we adults can barely grasp. The author accepts the pre-earthly origin of the child in its full reality. He shows how the little child still close to the sphere of its origin, perceives something of the cosmic in his environment: a ball awakens a slumbering memory of the spheres of the cosmos. 

He stresses the great importance that we do not try to awaken the child too early from his dreams of pre-earthly life. Out of his experience as a father, grandfather and teacher, the author traces the states of development and suggests suitable activities which will strenghthen the child for the world in which he is to live.