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312 The Century of the Child
embrace all living things, plants, animals, and
men ; until they teach them to see, that sympa-
thy involves not only suffering with others but
rejoicing with others, and that the individual
increases his own emotional capacity, when he
learns to feel with other individuals and with
other peoples. It will go on, as it is now, un-
til mothers implant in the souls of their child-
ren the certainty, that the patriotism which,
in the name of national interests, treads under
foot the rights of other people, is to be con-
demned. The moment children undertake to
act as adults, we shall see a harmony between
ideas so taught and facts. When the con-
ception of nationalism in the child’s mind is
freed from injustice and arrogance; when the
idea of God is freed from its debased union
with a selfish patriotism, then the idea of the
soldier will be ennobled. It will no longer be
identified with blind obedience and limited
class courage. The word will come to mean
a man and a fellow-citizen with the same
civilised interests, the same conception of
law, the same need of freedom, the same
feeling for honour, as all other fellow-
citizens. The soldier will be a defender of
his fatherland, whose character will have no
other warlike traits, than those called forth
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