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General Principle

Transactions of the R. Irish Academy. Vol XII (Habit) Essay on the Influence of Habit by Andrew Carmichael

p. 102. Infant screams when first expelling air, & first feeling cold &c. – Thence even after screams when feeling pain. Pshaw  !

(Somewhere I have read that young animal must never be allowed to suck once if it is to be reared by hand. Otherwise habit formed, now undoing habit (Zoonomia) could never be formed by action once performed.— There must be tendency to this habit.

[annotation in pencil:] Caterpillar if its feet will not change Domestic animals??

[in margin:] Conclusion – How far mistaken

p. 110. Talks of sight being solely due to experience

How then do chickens run? when already out of eggs. —

p. 127. "Without language there could not be general "ideas" curious to trace how much of an intellectual due to language, as different for language of animals

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p. 124 a man can tell a story twice, but not hear it without fatigue twice.

Why is it so inconceivably [illeg] to hear story told twice?

Why does child insist on story being told in precisely same way?

p. 144. "Emulation may be turned into envy & jealousy"

Emulation common to animals, as well as jealousy, & envy – when other getting good thing, then even try to get itself.

p. 151. "The moral progress of mankind differs little for that of Man"