sacrificed by man through descending to the methods of the
brute. Only by the child seeing his teacher always and
everywhere abstaining from the use of actual force, will he
come himself to despise force on all those occasions which do
not involve the defence of a weaker person against physical
superiority. The foundation of the desire for war is to be
sought for less in the war games than in the teachers' rod.

To defend corporal discipline, children's own statements are
brought in evidence, they are reported as saying they knew they
deserved such discipline in order to be made good. There is no
lower example of hypocrisy in human nature than this. It is
true the child may be sincere in other cases in saying that he
feels that through punishment he has atoned for a fault which
was weighing upon his conscience. But this is really the
foundation of a false system of ethics, the kind which still
continues to be preached as Christian, namely; that a fault may
be atoned for by sufferings which are not directly connected
with the fault. The basis of the new morality is just the
opposite as I have already shown. It teaches that no fault can
be atoned for, that no one can escape the results of his
actions in any way.

Untruthfulness belongs to the faults which the teacher thinks
he must most frequently punish with blows. But there is no case
in which this method is more dangerous.

When the much-needed guide-book for parents is published, the
well-known story of George Washington and the hatchet must
appear in it, accompanied by the remark which a clever