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294 The Century of the Child
effects of fine words leave behind, like cold
damp spots. The weak, as well as the strong,
will progress in the happy and responsible be-
lief in their own personality, as their only
source of help. The pulse of their purpose
will be strong and warm with red blood. They
will not be forced to humility; they will not
accept even equality with all others, or with
any other one. On the contrary they will be
strengthened in their right, to give their own
individual stamp to their joys, their suffer-
ings, and their works. They will be warned
to do their best because it is their own; to
seek their highest good, by drawing their own
boundaries at the place where the rights of
others begin.
While the home and the school make com-
promises between two opposed views of life,
people obtain from neither of them any real
good for the education of children. I have
already shown how in one and the same school
religious instruction and a certain amount of
knowledge and love for nature as well as his-
tory can be communicated. In one and the
same school the course of natural development
and history can be taught in connection with
instruction in religious history. In this in-
struction Judaism and Christianity will re-
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