I was shown vividly what little children's thoughts are like when they are playing with their own objects, pebbles, cups, (dockor*), for little children were then leading me. When I picked some out for (de swate kerlen**), then I felt as if they were seeing them as living, and when I put them at their side, that they did not imagine them as anything but alive, for they do not reflect on the fact that these are inanimate objects. 1748, 17 Aug. * Swedish for "dolls." ** Swedish for "the sweet fellows."