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Education 1 79
in those years in which they should influence
their minds. When the school gives them
back they do not know how to make a fresh
start with the children, for they themselves
have ceased to be young.
But getting old is no necessity; it is only a
bad habit. It is very interesting to observe a
face that is getting old. What time makes
out of a face shows better than anything else
what the man has made out of time. Most
men in the early period of middle age are
neither intellectually fat nor lean, they are
hardened or dried up. Naturally young peo-
ple look upon them with unsympathetic eyes,
for they feel that there is such a thing as
eternal youth, which a soul can win as a prize
for its whole work of inner development. But
they look in vain for this second eternal youth
in their elders, filled with worldly nothing-
nesses and things of temporary importance.
With a sigh they exclude the " old people
’*
from their future plans and they go out in
the world in order to choose their spiritual
parents.
This is tragic but just, for if there is a field
on which man must sow a hundred-fold in
order to harvest tenfold it is the souls of
children.
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