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Soul Murder in the Schools 223
few exceptions children are unanimous in call-
ing the first type the most beautiful.
Besides what is attractive for lively children,
with sound appetites, is quantity, but in no
way multiplicity.
First of all they ask whether the story is
long after they have begun to hope that it is
beautiful. They are glad to hear the same
story innumerable times; they have an uncon-
scious need for thorough assimilation, just as
soon as what is given to them harmonises with
their stage of development. This is true of
all subjects. I know children who detest the
" choice stories " from the Bible, with which
their morning prayers are commenced, but who
read the New Testament as a story-book. In
this respect, all small children are like great
ones, the artists. The imagination of child-
ren requires full, entire, deep impressions, as
material for their energies that are incessantly
creating and reconstructing. And if their
sound feeling has not been disturbed by
a dualism foreign to them it brings them with
remarkably sure instinct to choose the sound,
pure, and beautiful, and to reject the un-
sound, hateful, and crude. Finally, we find
in story-telling that children much prefer
continuity of impressions though they are said
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