A people whose education is carried on by gentle means only (I
mean the people of Japan), have shown that manliness is not in
danger where children are not hardened by corporal punishment.
These gentle means are just as effective in calling forth
selfmastery and consideration. These virtues are so imprinted
on children, at the tenderest age, that one learns first in
Japan what attraction considerate kindliness bestows upon life.
In a country where blows are never seen, the first rule of
social intercourse is not to cause discomfort to others. It is
told that when a foreigner in Japan took up a stone to throw it
at a dog, the dog did not run. No one had ever thrown a stone
at him. Tenderness towards animals is the complement in that
country of tenderness in human relationship, a tenderness whose
result is observed, among other effects, in a relatively small
number of crimes against life and security.

War, hunting for pleasure, corporal discipline, are nothing
more than different expressions of the tiger nature still alive
in man. When the rod is thrown away, and when, as some one has
said, children are no longer boxed on their ears but are given
magnifying glasses and photographic cameras to increase their
capacity for life and for loving it, instead of learning to
destroy it, real education in humanity will begin.

For the benefit of those who are not convinced that corporal
punishment can be dispensed with in a manly education, by so
remote and so distant an example as Japan, I should like to
mention a fact closer to us. Our Germanic forefathers did not
have this method of education. It was introduced with