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138 The Century of the Child
before it attains to a noble and complete
development.
Only when men realise that whipping a
child belongs to the same low stage of civilisa-
tion as beating a woman, or a servant, or as
the corporal punishment of soldiers and crimi-
nals, will the first real preparation begin of the
material from which perhaps later an educator
may be formed.
Corporal punishment was natural in rough
times. The body is tangible; what affects it
has an immediate and perceptible result. The
heat of passion is cooled by the blows it ad-
ministers; in a certain stage of development
blows are the natural expression of moral in-
dignation, the direct method by which the
moral will impresses itself on beings of lower
capacities. But it has since been discovered
that the soul may be impressed by spiritual
means, and that blows are just as demoralising
for the one who gives them as for the one who
receives them.
The educator, too, is apt to forget that the
child in many cases has as few moral concep-
tions as the animal or the savage. To punish
for this—is only a cruelty, and to punish by
brutal methods is a piece of stupidity. It
works against the possibility of elevating the
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