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The Century of the Child
CHAPTER I
THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD TO CHOOSE HIS
PARENTS
Filled with sad memories or eager hopes,
people waited for the turn of the century, and
as the clock struck twelve, felt innumerable
undefined forebodings. They felt that the
new century would certainly give them only
one thing, peace. They felt that those who
are labouring to-day would witness no new
development in that process of change to which
they had consciously or unconsciously
contributed their quota.
The events at the turn of the century caused
the new century to be represented as a small
naked child, descending upon the earth, but
drawing himself back in terror at the sight of
a world bristling with weapons, a world in
which for the opening century there was not
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