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278 The Century of the Child
revolt, will bring fresh personal powers to
intellectual and material culture alike, to the
sciences and the inventive faculties, to artistic
talent and to the whole art of life. It will
awaken and encourage capacity to find out
new scientific methods, to think youthful
thoughts, to make clever discoveries. Edu-
cated human beings will apply to the whole
sphere of culture their experience in their own
experiments, their own activity, their own
efforts; for aU of which the school and the
home will have already laid the foundation.
In the school, the painful restlessness of the
present " to get somewhere " will disappear
entirely. In the calm, profound atmosphere
of my school, the young generation will
be trained to believe that the most important
thing for man is not to do something, but to
be something. It may be harsh to say that
common natures are reckoned by what they
do, noble natures by what they are; yet
it is a deep truth, forgotten in this century
of activity, in this age of woman. But it is
bound to be remembered in the century of con-
templation, in the century of the child.
These principles will be applied, too, per-
haps, in the field of practical work. Machines
and electricity accomplish work that can give
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