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134 The Century of the Child
by step, this method of training and discipHne
has been superseded in all its forms. The
movement to abolish torture, imprisonment,
and corporal punishment failed for a long time
owing to the conviction that they were indis-
pensable as methods of discipline. But the
child, people answer, is still an animal, he must
be brought up as an animal. Those who talk
in this way know nothing of children nor of
animals. Even animals can be trained with-
out striking them, but they can only be trained
by men who have become men themselves.
Others come forward with the doctrine that
terror and pain have been the best means of
educating mankind, so the child must pursue
the same road as humanity. This is an utter
absurdity. We should also, on this theory,
teach our children, as a natural introduction
to religion, to practise fetish worship. If
the child is to reproduce all the lower de-
velopment stages of the race, he would be
practically depressed beneath the level which
he has reached physiologically and psycho-
logically through the common inheritance
of the race. If w^e have abandoned torture
and painful punishments for adults, while
they are retained for children, it is because we
have not yet seen that their soul life so far as
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