“Man--the all-surveying--must develop himself by gradual growth of consciousness, must raise himself eventually to clear consciousness of the foundation, conditions and goal of his life.”--_P., p. 198._ It was as clear to Froebel as to Professor Lloyd Morgan that the lower animals are kept from reaching self-consciousness by the definiteness of their instincts,[19] but to Froebel as to Browning “in completed Man begins anew a tendency to God.” Like Browning again, Froebel finds that man has “somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become,” he, too, “finds Progress man’s distinctive mark alone, not God’s, and not the beasts’; God is, they are, man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.” “Man in his first period of life on earth is to be regarded while a child in three separate relations, which are united in themselves. “(_a_) As a child of Nature, that is according to his earthly and natural conditions and connections, and in this relation bound, chained, unconscious, subject to impulses (als ein gebundenes, gefesseltes, unbewusstes, den Trieben unterworfenes). “(_b_) As a child of God, and in this relation as a free being, destined to self-consciousness. “(_c_) As a child of Humanity, and in this relation, as a being struggling from bondage toward freedom, toward consciousness.”--_P., p. 11._ And the beginning of all he finds in “The First Action of the Child.” In the paper to which he gives this title Froebel writes: “Helplessness and personal will, a mind of one’s own, soon become therefore the turning-points of child-life, the fulcrum of which is free spontaneous activity, self-employment.”--_P., p. 27._ It is because Froebel believes this, that we hear so much of creative activity. Consciousness, which Meredith calls “the great result of mortal suffering,” is the outcome of all the unconscious striving. “The child, although unconsciously, strives to make his life outwardly objective, and thus perceptible and so to become conscious of it.”--_P., p. 240._ “Man only comes to the power of self-examination and self-knowledge in any relation whatever with the greatest difficulty, and must first learn to study himself … in the mirror of Nature and of all creation.”--_L., p. 57._ “The child must perceive and grasp his own life in an objective manifestation before he can perceive and grasp it in himself. Such mirroring of the inner life, such making of the inner life objective, is essential, for through it, the child comes to self-consciousness and learns to order, determine and master himself.”--_P., p. 238._