the child psychologist piaget may call this childish inclination to perceive everything as having feeling as animistic thinking,83 and it is definitely true up to a point , but such reductionism is an indignity to the innocence of pure sentience and pathos therein ; and st. augustine is rather inane in imputing a protective defense of crying to original sin ( selfish , it may be and has to be , but sinful it is not ) , and of course when he feels remorse for having once cried as a baby,84 he takes his ideals to entertaining lunacy .