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iS8 The Century of the Child
gentle means only (I mean the people of
Japan), have shown that manliness is not in
danger where children are not hardened by
corporal punishment. These gentle means
are just as effective in calling forth self-mast-
ery and consideration. These virtues are so
imprinted on children, at the tenderest age,
that one learns first in Japan what attraction
considerate kindliness bestows upon life. In
a country where blows are never seen, the first
rule of social intercourse is not to cause dis-
comfort to others. It is told that when a
foreigner in Japan took up a stone to throw
it at a dog, the dog did not run. No one had
ever thrown a stone at him. Tenderness to-
wards animals is the complement in that coun-
try of tenderness in human relationship, a
tenderness whose result is observed, among
other effects, in a relatively small number of
crimes against life and security.
War, hunting for pleasure, corporal disci-
pline, are nothing more than different expres-
sions of the tiger nature still alive in man.
When the rod is thrown away, and when, as
some one has said, children are no longer boxed
on their ears but are given magnifying glasses
and photographic cameras to increase their
capacity for life and for loving it, instead of
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