"children at a certain stage"

[Terrance]

"Herbert Stencil, like small children at a certain stage and
Henry Adams in the Education...always referred to himself in
the third person." 

Freudian derived Stage Theory, maybe even Anna Freud's? or
theories of discontinuity, some "historical" others
"biological" were very popular during the late 50s and
early  60s. 
 
For example, stage theorists argued that the major thrust of
development in social cognition for children is the decline
of egocentrism and the development of role-taking skills.
Egocentrism is the lack of ability to take another person's
perspective into account. Children move through distinct
stages of role-taking abilities. The lower boundary of these
stages is egocentric perspective taking, when children
confuse their perspective on objects and events with others'
perspectives. This is characteristic of children below age
six. Children gradually become aware that other people may
have motivations different from their own point that the
child is able to assume a third-person point of view, such
as when the child can say "Mac wants me to play doctor, but
I want to play house." Mutual perspective-taking (age ten
through adult) is developed when children understand that
just as they can look at others' perspectives, so can others
mutually examine their perspective. 

Nobody loves you like a Mother can, but...

Stencil was born the year Queen Victoria died, 1901.

Her reign was almost free of war, with an Irish uprising
(1848), the Boer Wars in South Africa (1881, 1899-1902) and
an Indian rebellion (1857) being the only exceptions.
Victoria was named Empress of India in 1878. England avoided
continental conflict from 1815 through 1914,the lone
exception being the Crimean War (1853-56).

Just a little Irish uprising is all, oh and an Indian
Rebellion, oh Africa, and....

I think there are a few other nasty little wars not
mentioned here. 

http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html

Was Disraeli Sephardic before he was baptized? He was,
wasn't he?   	

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/egypt.htm