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our better-favored youth. A cultivation of the 

 moral nature should be started early and con- 

 tinued all through the developing period. The 

 child can soon recognize the difference between 

 right and wrong and this vital distinction must 

 be both taught and enforced. 



Finally, a careful religious training, when 

 freed from obsolete dogmas, will be most help- 

 ful in developing the best character attainable. 

 A simple, rational faith in the moral order of 

 the world and in a Supreme Being who is 

 working by the laws of nature and life for the 

 ultimate good of the race can early be incul- 

 cated. This will start a sense of responsibility 

 that will develop with later years. 



It is unfortunate that the spiritual life of 

 children should be so often neglected by parents 

 and teachers. As a result, too often we are 

 raising a lot of lusty young pagans who, as they 

 grow up, like Gallio, will "care for none of these 

 things." No one quicker than the child reacts 

 to the widespread materialism of the day. It 

 is a strange fact that while materialism is grow- 

 ing stronger as a social force, it is losing ground 



