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Education 183
of the human race ; we must carefully treat the ^
fine threads in the child’s soul because these
are the threads that one day will form the
woof of world events. We must realise that
every pebble by which one breaks into the
glassy depths of the child’s soul will extend its
influence through centuries and centuries in
ever widening circles. Through our fathers,
without our will and without choice, we are
given a destiny which controls the deepest
foundation of our own being. Through our
posterity, which we ourselves create, we can
in a certain measure, as free beings, determine
the future destiny of the human race.
’^-"’^^
By a realisation of all this in an entirely new
way, by seeing the whole process in the light
of the religion of development, the twentieth
century will be the century of the child. This
will come about in two ways. Adults will
first come to an understanding of the child’s
character and then the simplicity of the child’s
character will be kept by adults. So the old
social order will be able to renew itself.
Psychological pedagogy has an exalted an-
cestry. I will not go back to those artists in
education called Socrates and Jesus, but I
commence with the modern world. In the
hours of its sunrise, in which we, who look
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