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Education i8i
we suspect there are princes, but as to the
kings, where are they? " Not only life’s tragic
elements diminish and dam up its vital
energies. Equally destructive is a parent’s
want of reverence for the sources of life which
meet them in a new being. Fathers and moth-
ers must bow their heads in the dust before the
exalted nature of the child. Until they see
that the word " child " is only another expres-
sion for the conception of majesty; until they
feel that it is the future which in the form of a
child sleeps in their arms, and history which
plays at their feet, they will not understand
that they have as little power or right to pre-
scribe laws for this new being as they possess
the power or might to lay down paths for the
stars.
The mother should feel the same reverence
for the unknown worlds in the wide-open eyes
of her child, that she has for the worlds which
like white blossoms are sprinkled over the blue
orb of heaven ; the father should see in his child
the king’s son whom he must serve humbly
with his own best powers, and then the child
will come to his own ; not to the right of asking
others to become the plaything of his caprices
but to the right of living his full strong per-
sonal child’s life along with a father and a
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