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i62 The Century of the Child
selves to train others they forget all their own
personal experience.
The strongest constructive factor in the
education of a human being is the settled, quiet
order of home, its peace, and its duty. Open-
heartedness, industry, straightforwardness at
home develop goodness, desire to work, and
simplicity in the child. Examples of artistic
work and books in the home, its customary life
on ordinary days and holidays, its occupa-
tions and its pleasures, should give to the emo-
tions and imagination of the child, periods of
movement and repose, a sure contour and a
rich colour. The pure, warm, clear atmos-
phere in which father, mother, and children
live together in freedom and confidence ; where
none are kept isolated from the interests of the
others; but each possesses full freedom for his
own personal interest; where none trenches on
the rights of others; where all are willing to
help one another when necessary,—in this at-
mosphere egoism, as well as altruism, can
attain their richest development, and individu-
ality find its just freedom. As the evolution
of man’s soul advances to undreamed-of pos-
sibilities of refinement, of capacity, of pro-
fundity; as the spiritual life of the generation
becomes more manifold in its combinations
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