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thetic care according to its needs must be 

 rendered. An increasing knowledge of the 

 real requirements of child life will not tolerate 

 faulty methods much longer, for a larger and 

 wiser human spirit is at work on these problems, 

 which is not content to put up with evils that 

 can be prevented. A wider vision, truer cour- 

 age, and broader human feeling is needed in 

 this work. The results will be worthy of the 

 effort. 



The most powerful forces of nature, such as 

 heat, electricity or the all-embracing ether, are 

 subtle and unseen ; may we not include mother 

 love as another most potent agency in creat- 

 ing and sustaining life? 



Phillips Brooks says very wisely, — **He who 

 helps a child helps humanity with a distinct- 

 ness, with an immediateness, which no other 

 help given to human creatures in any other 

 stage of their human life can possibly give 

 again.** 



