of the parents; they have a right to all that is 

 good and noble and encouraging in the parent 

 life; they have a right to find their home the 

 most pleasant spot on earth; they have a right 

 to all the means of refinement that lie within 

 the limits of the parents' purse; they have a 

 right to proper food and clothing for the body, 

 but equally as great right to mental and moral 

 nourishment, that neither body nor soul may be 

 atrophied; they have the right to have the laws 

 of their development, both physiological and psy- 

 chological, well understood and held sacred by 

 those in authority over them; they have a right 

 to have their better nature so strengthened that 

 when the seeds of evil speech and evil action fall 

 upon their life they will take no abiding root, be- 

 cause the soil is already occupied with the fruits 

 of better hopes. > ' (MacDonald : ' ' Child Study, ' ' 

 1343.) 



"Nor nurse, nor parent dear can know 

 The way these infant feet must go ; 

 And yet a nation's help and hope 

 Are sealed within that horoscope." 



