PEDIATRICS Vol. 49 No. 5 May 1972, pp. 651
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ST. AUGUSTINE ON HIS CHILDHOOD

T. E. C. Jr. M.D.

Gradually I came to know where I was, and I tried to express my wants to those who could gratify them, yet could not, because my wants were inside me, and they were outside, nor had they any power of getting into my soul. And so I made movements and sounds, signs like my wants, the few I could, the best I could, for they were not really like my meaning. And when I was not obeyed, because people did not understand me, or because they would not do me harm, I was angry, because elders did not submit to me, because freemen would not slave for me and I avenged myself on them by tears.1