Once again we find our attention directed to the threefold structure of man’s physical organism. For the faculty of upright walking is a result of the I’s activity in the limb-system of the body; the acquisition of speech takes place in the rhythmic system; and thinking is a faculty based on the nerve-system. Consequently, each of the three achievements comes to pass at a different level of consciousness-sleeping, dreaming, waking. All through the struggle of erecting the body against the pull of gravity, the child is entirely unaware of the activities of his own I. In the course of acquiring speech he gains a dim awareness, as though in dream, of his efforts. Some capacity of thinking has to unfold before the first glimmer of true self-consciousness is kindled. (Note that the word ‘I’ is the only one that is not added to the child’s vocabulary by way of imitation. Otherwise he would, as some mentally inhibited children do, call all other people ‘I’ and himself ‘you’.)