thought from that pursued by the parent.

As to ideals, the elders should here as elsewhere, offer with
timidity their advice and their experience. Yes they should try
to let the young people search for it as if they were seeking
fruit hidden under the shadow of leaves. If their counsel is
rejected, they must show neither surprise nor lack of
self-control.

The query of a humourist, why he should do anything for
posterity since posterity had done nothing for him, set me to
thinking in my early youth in the most serious way. I felt that
posterity had done much for its forefathers. It had given them
an infinite horizon for the future beyond the bounds of their
daily effort. We must in the child see the new fate of the
human race; we must carefully treat the fine threads in the
child's soul because these are the threads that one day will
form the woof of world events. We must realise that every
pebble by which one breaks into the glassy depths of the
child's soul will extend its influence through centuries and
centuries in ever widening circles. Through our fathers,
without our will and without choice, we are given a destiny
which controls the deepest foundation of our own being. Through
our posterity, which we ourselves create, we can in a certain
measure, as free beings, determine the future destiny of the
human race.

By a realisation of all this in an entirely new way, by seeing
the whole process in the light of the religion of development,
the twentieth century will be the century of the child. This