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320 The Century of the Child
by God’s help the battlefields are covered with
torn, maimed beings, with whose destroyed
brains innumerable thoughts and feelings are
extinguished which could have enriched hu-
manity, I know no more abnormal idea than
the custom of people speaking of a guardian
angel when a chance has kept two children
from an accident. Where is this guardian
angel in the innumerable other cases of mis-
fortune: when children remain alone because
their mother must go to work and they fall
out of the window or into the fire? When
they lose their eyesight in dark cellars? When
they are pressed to death because in miserable
lodgings they have to share a bed with their
parents? When the parents are drunk and
the children lose their lives? Where is this
guardian angel when parents murder their
children, from religious fanaticism or disgust
of life: when the children themselves, tired
of life or through fear of parental cruelty, take
their own lives? Where are these protective
angels on the occasions when they are most
wanted?—in the narrow streets of great cities,
in the great industrial centres where lack of
sunlight, of pure air, and of all the other
primary conditions for the development of
soul and body, undermines the bodily strength
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