...serious use. The Atavistic Theory, of which Hall is the greatest exponent : "Play is the motor habit and spirit of the past of the race persisting in the present race as rudimentary functions." "In play we rehearse the activities of our ancestors." "In play every...

...the growth of legs which will otherwise never mature. In place of this mistaken and misleading view, I regard play as the motor habits and spirit of the...sometimes of and always akin to rudimentary organs. The best index and guide to the stated activities of adults in past ages is found in the instinctive,...

...growth of legs which will otherwise never mature. In place of this mistaken and mislead73 ing view, I regard play as the motor habits and spirit of the...sometimes of and always akin to rudimentary organs. The best index and guide to the stated activities of adults in past ages is found in the instinctive,...

...growth of legs which will otherwise never mature. In place of this mistaken and mislead73 ing view, I regard play as the motor habits and spirit of the...sometimes of and always akin to rudimentary organs. TJae best index and guide to the statejLj,cjiYJties_of.^dults,ia^past__ages is found in the instinctive,...

...explanation in its preparation for future serious occupations in the struggle for life. Hall finds in play the motor habits and spirit of the past of the race persisting in the present. Gulick finds in it the manifestation of inherited tendencies toward certain activities allied to historic...

...mistaken and misleading view, I. regard play as the motor habits and spirit of the rjasj^j^jherace^ persisting in the present, as rudimentary functions sometimes of and always akin Jo jrudimentary organs. The best index and guide to the stated activities of adults in past ages is...

...and bodily training with its corresponding brain development and growth of power. Play is regarded as the motor habits and spirit of the past of the race persisting in the present. "This is why the heart of youth goes out into play as into nothing else, as if in it man remembered...

...are the germinal leaves of all the later life. (This is Groos's theory inverted.) D. Hall. "Play is the motor habits and spirit of the past of the race persisting in the present as rudimentary function of and always akin to rudimentary organs." (This completes and explains Groos's theory.) "Thus...

...and the animal are capable of going beyond the immediate and practical environment, in this mariner extending their control, so that they shall be better...physical inheritance to his descendants. The of educa- skin gained in playing the piano ends with the tion through ' uu • jviu , u «.u social in- person...

...a relic, or is reminiscent of the useful actions of far off ancestors, is also open to question. " I regard play as the motor habits and spirit of the...sometimes of and always akin to rudimentary organs. . . The young grow up into the same forms of motor activity, as did generations that have long preceded...