Show THE OF FA MOTHER I A writer In McClures Magazine I I as 89 We e tall taik a about out iri There Is 15 no such thing To Tobe be sure there are things that have to todo do 10 which fet females lales and males l k wasp asp l lays yS Its eggs eggson on the b d of the Ilie caterpillar for the larva It will neer see The hen hn sits on all whit whitIsh isit Ish object of the proper size I have seen ata at a childrens s party part every little I girl lr leave the supper table on on the ad adi advent i vent of the baby an anU l every little bo boo boy boyo o stolidly on with his supper But ut kInd of mother has Its own bun ilci of Instinctive reactions There Ie Ieno Is no maternal instinct In the abstract To the lIlo foregoing a writer takes exception and and asks What sane soul with Hh two tivo eyes can den deny maternal Instinct The writer declares that Th experimental movement which has characterized the tue last quarter Century of human psychology has within ten years been rigidly applied to the study of the psYchic life or of animals The animal mind hItherto a region of myth and nd a field for fOl human fancy has har been Iwen subjected to severe I 1 I conditions wIth a to determine accurately what It in ID Studies have been ma mado on onlie i lie on on the tho of association on the presence or of ideas ilas and on the ability to learn h by imitation Activities In the field have so numerous that animal s mn may fairly ho he termed a cur current current rent scientific movement a movement In which are holding a foremost place Animal psychology When our children leave school the 11 notion of what constitutes heir hall souls |