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112 The Century of the Child
naughty to a playmate and had called her a
httle pig,—a natural appellation for one who
was always dirty. These are typical ex-
amples of how the sound instincts of the child
are dulled. It was a spontaneous utterance
of the childish heart when a small boy, after
an account of the heaven of good children,
asked his mother whether she did not believe
that, after he had been good a whole week
in heaven, he might be allowed to go to hell
on Saturday evening to play with the bad lit-
tle boys there.
The child felt in its innermost consciousness
that he had a right to be naughty, a funda-
mental right which is accorded to adults; and
not only to be naughty, but to be naughty in
peace, to be left to the dangers and joys of
naughtiness.
To call forth from this " unvirtue " the com-
plimentary virtue is to overcome evil with
good. Otherwise we overcome natural
strength by weak means and obtain artificial
virtues which will not stand the tests which
life imposes.
It seems simple enough when we say that
we must overcome evil with good, but practi-
cally no process is more involved, or more
tedious, than to find actual means to accom-
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