being is the settled, quiet order of home, its peace, and its
duty. Open-heartedness, industry, straightforwardness at home
develop goodness, desire to work, and simplicity in the child.
Examples of artistic work and books in the home, its customary
life on ordinary days and holidays, its occupations and its
pleasures, should give to the emotions and imagination of the
child, periods of movement and repose, a sure contour and a
rich colour. The pure, warm, clear atmosphere in which father,
mother, and children live together in freedom and confidence;
where none are kept isolated from the interests of the others;
but each possesses full freedom for his own personal interest;
where none trenches on the rights of others; where all are
willing to help one another when necessary,--in this atmosphere
egoism, as well as altruism, can attain their richest
development, and individuality find its just freedom. As the
evolution of man's soul advances to undreamed-of possibilities
of refinement, of capacity, of profundity; as the spiritual
life of the generation becomes more manifold in its
combinations and in its distinctions; the more time one has for
observing the wonderful and deep secrets of existence, behind
the visible, tangible, world of sense, the more will each new
generation of children show a more refined and a more
consistent mental life. It is impossible to attain this result
under the torture of the crude methods in our present home and
school training. We need new homes, new schools, new marriages,
new social relations, for those new souls who are to feel,
love, and suffer, in ways infinitely numerous that we now can
not even name. Thus they will come to understand life; they
will have aspirations and hopes; they will believe; they will
pray. The conceptions of religion, love, and art, all these