Lewis Padgett Quote

'Babies of course are not human — they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes; the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates. In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.'

A quote from A High Wind in Jamaica : The Innocent Voyage (1932) by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, read by Rex Holloway - Mimsy Were The Borogoves (1943)