Fourteen to twenty months seem more likely for the earliest stages of language, such as babbling, first use of typical sentence intonation and rhythm, then early words and phrases, before fully formed, grammatical sentences. My mother told me that I spoke my first word at seven months of age, but after watching three generations begin their lives and progress to adulthood, I do not believe that. Later, sitting, standing, walking, and language come, and memories.
As time passes, we slowly pick up experiences and correlate them to yield recognition and familiarities. We each must choose mistakes occur-I have certainly made more than my share of them-but mistakes are a universal part of human life. No one, regardless of opinions held, can know, as much about what is needed for another than that other, if that other has normal intelligence and is fully-grown. Each person must choose a path best for that person. Benjamin Franklin wrote an autobiography ostensibly as an example to his son, but my project is not meant as an example to anyone.
Knowing of another’s time may sometimes help to gain perspective on one’s own. Yet each period of time has its own features, some of which continue into the next period, but others of which change or pass away altogether. Writing about oneself seems rather self-centered and presumptuous everyone has a life story, so why foist one person’s story on another? Also, I find it harder to settle down and write this than other subjects of more general interest. So I choose to tell of it, for whatever interest it may have. So it has been with me, and I presume most others. New discoveries are always occurring, and almost always a source of satisfaction to come. Reality has a range of surprises beyond our ability to exhaust. We therefore always continue to discover surprises, especially if we look for them. Heyer Saga comprehend a reality greater than itself it hasn’t enough parts. Yet reality is too complex to be fully comprehended. Later, as we begin to form a reasonable picture of reality, the surprises become less frequent, because we can begin to foresee, so that new discoveries fit neatly with what we have already experienced. At first, everything is new and surprising, but as we begin to form some preliminary ideas about reality, then only those discoveries which reach outside those ideas are any surprise, and we become accustomed to constantly making new discoveries, as mobility, language, curiosity, and experience constantly bring new information and sensations. Of this time, we can only recall what we have been told about it. But normally we cannot later recall this part of life, as growth, increasing maturity of parts of the body, and practice enable us gradually to master a rising number of skills. We learn early to track with our eyes, to feel roughness or smoothness, later to reach, still later to manipulate, and go on to learn to sit, stand, balance, walk, and finally talk. We start our “separate” (post-birth) lives with senses to detect sound, light, pain, pressure, hunger, gravity, heat, cold, and probably tastes and odors of various kinds, but initially are unaware of the meaning or relevance of any of these. We can only experience what we sense, without understanding. At the edge of consciousness we can suckle, raise our heads when on the stomach, move our muscles (mostly in an uncoordinated way), and communicate through at least four distinct kinds of cry, built into us. Unconsciously we can usually digest food, produce and use energy, remove waste from inside the body, and grow. We are born knowing nothing and having few abilities. But here let us examine the journey of discovery. Of course, it is also an adventure, and involves risks and trials, relationships, sometimes romance, multiple emotions, attractions, beauty, joy, struggle, and other aspects. 270 CHAPTER 24: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAWYERS. 261 CHAPTER 23: THREE STATE GOVERNORS AND A U.S.
221 CHAPTER 20: CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 212 CHAPTER 19: HOW BIOLOGY AROSE ON EARTH. To those who have cleared the way To those who have shared the journey To those embarked or now embarking on the way and To those yet to trod the path.
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