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290 The Century of the Child
really become actual Protestants, and refuse
to receive the greatest good of life, their re-
ligion, through authority, will they begin even
in social and political questions to attain an
independent opinion of their own. As teach-
ers and leaders, they will secure for school
children, and for students, for officers and for
officials, the freedom in word and deed that is
the right of the citizen and the man. Men
and women, who in their private life are
strictly honourable, have learnt, in general
questions, to put their thoughts, their acts, un-
der the command of a leader, and above all
they have learnt to do this in the name of re-
ligious belief.
The courage to construct one’s own opinion
in everything that makes the essential worth
of life, but chiefly in one’s religious belief, the
power to express it, the will of making some
sacrifice for it, all these give man a new share
of civilisation and culture. As long as educa-
tion and social life do not consciously forward
this kind of courage, power, and will, the world
will remain as it is, a parade ground of stu-
pidity, crudeness, force, and selfishness, no
matter whether radicals or conservatives, the
democratic or aristocratic elements, have the
upper hand.
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