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288 The Century of the Child
concessions to the idiocies of fashion, and the
follies by which people are ruined in order to
live according to their position, among other
psychological grounds for man’s lack of steadi-
ness must be placed, as its ultimate cause, the
following: The child, along with religion, has
breathed in the conviction that opinions are
one thing, actions another. This experience
goes through the whole of life, even in the case
of those who have lost the conviction that the
Christian religion is absolute. The free-
thinker is married, has his children baptised,
and allows them to be confirmed, without con-
sidering whether he is forced to it by his own
wish, or the wish of doing like other people.
The republican sings the royal hymn, sends
loyal salutations by telegraph, accepts decora-
tions,—^but I must break off, otherwise I
should have to enumerate all the small acts of
insincerity to one’s self, of which the daily life
of most people consists, and which are de-
fended under the name of non-essentials; I
could never get to the end. This is not the
way the Christian martyrs thought who might
have freed themselves from death by casting
a few grains of incense on the emperor’s altar.
Two grains of incense,—what an unimportant
matter, thinks the modem man, and with quiet
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