Newark post., 1910-07-06

man life without you? Is not the in
sinct OF the child that sees kindliness
and certain goodness in the negro, that
despises not the Italian or any for
eigner, is not that feeling the true
one? Is it not all wrong that we
should feel scorn of the man who is
simply different from us, who has lack
ed the opportunities that we have, or
whose Virtues happen simply to be
different from ours? The spirit of
contempt is never born in a child.
That. you, father, you, mother, you
older brother or sister, taught that
child Oh, can't we get back to SIM
pie reverence once more? 1t would
solve all the race questions, all the
social questions, bring about Mil
lenium right soon. 1t would stop the
social evil Danish divorce, line our
highways with trees, yes, and they
| might be fruit trees, too. Don't mis-
understand me by hastily assuming
that | believe in social equality, or
any such thing; | do not. | see no
such thing as equality anywhere among
men, but | hate injustice, hate preju-
dice, | ask only that the little child be
taught to carry through all life its
first grave, happy, reverent interest
and appreciation in all goodness
wherever it is seen.
Who taught that child that bats are
, to be feared, that they carry bed bugs
under their wings? That is lie. Who
taught fear to the child? Who taught
it to kill things, II rob birds nests, to
! torture animals. to uproot plants, to
be a vandal wherever it VENT Ah.
! God forgive us. we have not time, or
, else we have not ourselves enough
goodness to be Fl, 10 G comrades with
| these little ones aud simply lead them
=, I'D along the path that their little fee t
! are born naturally 20 tread Thank
! God we are learning to see the way,
TO see is the first step. we will learn
to walk that way. some day, fear not.
Now comes the final, that you are
all wishing 70 hear. Perhaps it is as
/ essential as anything else that J have
discussed. 1t is to encourage and de-
velop in the child from infancy up an
, inquiring mind and to give it hand
trained to work
Naturally the child has the inquirng
! mind Childre.' cave education, true,
real education, the learning OF the sec
rets of growth. the way things are
made. They desire exceedingly tc
know things. Don't they dig up seeds
to see how they sprout? Don't they
take their dolls and payth'ngs apart
to see how they are madeo That is
the instinct III the true student dis
courage it not. Direct the young
mind DO not rcrress it. Accept The
little child frankly as an equal, en-
barked Oh the same journey of life a!
yourself. interested as YOU are in Ma
ture and al things pertaining. Tall
to the child as sensibly as you woulo
to an older person. Marvellous is tht
mind oi the child, marvellous the east
with which impressions are mad,
there. Marvellous the staying quail
ties of those impressions. There vii
be absorbed in early childhood ten
denotes toward thought. tendencies to
ward research. tendnecies toward
opinions and convictions. Rightly led
these will all be along natural true
; helpful lines. The brain of the chill,
, is a white tablet on which one ma
> write 1t is mass of moulder's clay
it may be shaped easily into almos
any form 1t is a twig that may b
/, bent with ease but that. once bent
is very hard to stra'ghten again TIL
direction Of thought, the tendency q
thought oi the child during its Garlic
years is nearly sure to fix it for all lf
; afterward.
t Go be continued)