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Fiske, John, 1842-1901

"The Meaning of Infancy"

Educability varies widely in different creatures
7. Increased intelligence means prolonged infancy
8. The socializing effects of infancy
9. The use of this capacity for progress in the past

II. THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
1. The grandeur of natural causation
2. The problem of man's ascendancy
3. Natural selection seizes on intelligence
4. A long infancy characteristic of man
5. A complex life requires a longer infancy
6. Infancy fosters sociability and the family
7. Group life increases the social and moral bonds
8. Spiritual man is evolution's terminal factor
9. Man marks a development along new lines
10. Hand-work in the evolution of intelligence
11. The educational value of aesthetic effort
12. Man's spirituality is prophetic of his destiny


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