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gent care and training for their children. And be- 

 cause of the natural advantages of the surroundings, 

 country parents have the greatest justification of all 

 for being enthusiastic over the outlook. Now, let 

 them go patiently and reverently at the work of 

 bringing up for the service of the world a magnifi- 

 cent race of men and women men who have brain 

 and brawn and moral courage and religious devotion ; 

 women who have a profound sense of maternal re- 

 sponsibility, an inspiring superiority over the per- 

 plexing duties of the household, a deep and far- 

 reaching social sympathy, and such a poise and sub- 

 limity of thought as to reveal the divinity inherent in 

 their characters. For lo ! In the hidden depths of 

 the natures of the common boys and girls there lie 

 slumbering these splendid possibilities ! 



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