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Education 131
been rude to his elder brother and was placed
upon a chair to repent his fault. When the
mother after a time asked if he was sorry, he
answered, " Yes," with emphasis, but as the
mother saw a mutinous sparkle in his eyes she
felt impelled to ask, " Sorry for what?" and
the youngster broke out, " Sorry that I did
not call him a liar besides." The mother was
wise enough on this occasion, and ever after,
to give up insisting on repentance.
Spontaneous penitence is full of signifi-
cance; it is a deeply felt desire for pardon.
But an artificial emotion is always and every-
where worthless. Are you not sorry? Does
it make no difference to you that your mother
is ill, your brother dead, your father away
from home? Such expressions are often used
as an appeal to the emotions of children. But
children have a right to have feelings, or not
have them, and to have them as undisturbed as
gro^n people. The same holds good of their
sympathies and antipathies. The sensitive
feelings of children are constantly injured by
lack of consideration on the part of grown peo-
ple, their easily stimulated aversions are con-
stantly being brought out. But the sufferings
of children through the crudeness of their
elders belong to an unwritten chapter of child
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