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tween these points seems to be the necessary con- 

 clusion. Where the personality comes from is a 

 question that the materialist can hardly answer. 

 G. Stanley Hall says (''Adolescence," I, 2): 

 1 ' Certain it is that the cellular theory needs to be 

 supplemented by assuming, both in the organism 

 as a whole and in the species, powers that can 

 not be derived from the cells." So if we should 

 find that at one time the child is not a moral be- 

 ing, and later that he is, we would not need to 

 be staggered by the fact, as it is no more con- 

 trary to the history of the individual than many 

 a physical crisis through which he has passed. 

 He has received from without that which was not 

 within himself. We have to assume an outside 

 Builder even of the body of the child. 



To affirm sin of a being without personality 

 or moral character is a confused use of the word, 

 in which we must be thinking of some physical as 

 distinguished from some moral conditions. The 

 child-condition is a sort of larva-condition of per- 

 sonality. At puberty it throws off the old en- 

 closure and passes definitely into a new state of 

 personality for which the larva state was a prep- 

 aration. The subordination of the child to the 

 parent is based as much in its moral inabilities 

 as in its physical. The parent is moral character 

 for the child, and he has no distinct moral respon- 

 sibility in himself, although he is constantly grow- 

 ing toward it through the years. 



We must, then, avoid the confusion of moral 



