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33^ The Century of the Child
tered a great part of the young generation.
Without undervaluing the influences of en-
vironment, I still believe that young people
who have lost their ideals without getting new
ones in their place are to be pitied. The
young who are not making ideals out of their
own souls will have no other time than this to
find ideals. A generation of young men of
this type laughed at Socrates. They would
have nailed Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross,
with a shrug of the shoulders ; they would have
become, undoubtedly, in 1789, emigres with
the Bourbons.
When the youth of any period remains with-
out ideals, we pass through a fin de siecle per-
iod no matter what the exact date may be. But
when the young generation is inspired with
the feeling of having great acts to do, a new
century begins. It is always the fortunate
right of young people to stimulate individual-
ism before everything else. This is done every
time a young person full of sound egoism
develops his own personality completely and
powerfully, throws himself keenly into the
struggle for his own fortune. Any one who
takes his individual development seriously
will find that it is hard to become an independ-
ent, noble, and exalted personality by treading
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