Excerpt from That Boy of Yours: Sympathetic Studies of Boyhood
The earth of the animal has not all fallen off yet and will not, with his consent, till he begins his preparations to quit being a boy. The differences between him and the beasts of the field will begin to show themselves as his awakening consciousness gets hold of the task of controlling him. He is an animal and we are not allowed to forget that, at any time in his career; but he is more, by the measure of infinity.
There's variety in a boy. The manifold physical hungers and thirsts of the animal are in all his senses and they keep all the sources of supply at work, day and night. Through the wonderful nervous system, the nexus between him and his body, by which he expresses himself and initiates his enterprises, his body is so tied up with the mental and moral that its health and purity require the same care as do the finest elements and essences. His physical elements are, of course, the same, in number, as in grown people Some of them are in action, some dormant, some quiescent; some subordinate, while others are in control - such as love and hatred, hope and fear, sense of justice, appreciation of the beautiful, the sublime and the true, and all the powers of thought and will. But even his most active powers are immature and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one from another.
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