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1 82 The Century of the Child
mother who themselves live a personal life, a
life from whose sources and powers the child
can take the elements he needs for his own in-
dividual growth. Parents should never ex-
pect their own highest ideals to become the
ideals of their child. The free-thinking sons of
pious parents and the Christian children of
freethinkers have become almost proverbial.
But parents can live nobly and in entire ac-
cordance to their own ideals which is the same
thing as making children idealists. This can
often lead to a quite different system of
thought from that pursued by the parent.
As to ideals, the elders should here as else-
where, 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 forefath-
ers. 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
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