XIV INTRODUCTION 



because there is nothing in the nature of such a 

 being which demands a world of individuals. But 

 it is equally true that to develop the emotions 

 abnormally, is to develop a being of the temper 

 of Rousseau, a "weltering mass of sensibility," 

 impelled this way to-day and to-morrow that, 

 according as the wind of emotion blows north or 

 south, saved, if saved at all, from debasing 

 superstitions only because he passively accepts 

 the results of other men's thinking. Succeed 

 ideally with your nature study, we said above in 

 commenting upon our cat illustration, and the boy 

 will quiver with indignation at the infliction of 

 unnecessary pain upon an animal. It is now 

 clear that such a boy will never see the necessity 

 for the infliction of pain, unless he has capacities 

 which have not been developed by any training 

 /of his emotional nature. Manifestly what is 

 'needed is not a training either of the head or the 

 heart by itself, but of the two in conjunction. As 

 Pestalozzi put it, " Let not [the child] attempt to 

 [climb the ladder leading up to Heaven] by the 

 cold calculation of the head or the mere impulses of 

 the heart ; but let all these powers combine, and 

 the noble enterprise will be crowned with success." 

 Nevertheless, the half of the truth upon which 



