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Education i37
him, for if they once begin with this con-
venient and easy method, they continue to use
corporal discipline even contrary to their first
intention, because they have failed while using
such punishment to develop the child’s in-
telligence.
If people do not see this it is no more use to
speak to them of education than it would be
to talk to a cannibal about the world’s peace.
But as these savages in educational matters
are often civilised human beings in other re-
spects, I should like to request them to think
over the development of marriage from the
time when man wooed with a club and when
woman was regarded as the soulless property
of man, only to be kept in order by blows, a
view which continued to be held until modern
times. Through a thousand daily secret in-
fluences, our feelings and ideas have been so
transformed that these crude conceptions have
disappeared, to the great advantage of society
and the individual. But it may be hard to
awaken a pedagogical savage to the convic-
tion that, in quite the same way, a thousand
new secret and mighty influences will change
our crude methods of education, when parents
once come to see that parenthood must go
through the same transformation as marriage,
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