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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Child Labour and Child Crimes 337
underfoot other individuals. He will more-
over see that it makes more demands on his
personal powers to try to create new values by
new means, to devote his youthful energy to
new tasks, than to look back to ideas that are
already exhausted. There is another truth
the young man will soon find to be valid. If an
individual throws himself into the struggle of
life without consideration for any one else, he
is all the more likely to get hurt in the strug-
gle. The more developed, too, an individual
is, the more assailable points there are about
him to be wounded. Great pain, as well as
great happiness, is for great men a part of the
fulness of life. Failures of a personality are
often better proofs that it is above the average
than its victories. But failures, even if they
frequently leave our innermost personality
shattered, can be borne, when we have learnt
that there is a bandage to heal our own wounds,
the bandage, I mean, that we lay on the
wounds of others.
No real man needs to wait until life has
taught him, to sympathise with others. The
inspiring age of youth may experience this, as
well as the strong individual feeling of power.
In this sense, many remain ever young, al-
ways able to pass through inspired moments.

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