CHAPTER XIV 



WHICH BO AD? 



THERE are two roads in which children may be 

 guided: the road of animal development and the 

 road which uses physical powers but subordinates 

 them to higher uses the road of spiritual over- 

 development. 



The history of our subject shows that there 

 have always been two roads between which choice 

 was made ; but they have not always been distin- 

 guished as we would have them. The road of the 

 spirit has been interpreted by the Puritanic 

 thinker as one in which the flesh was regarded as 

 in itself evil, and hence there was nothing to be 

 done with it but to disregard it and deny its tend- 

 encies. This road has been broadly interpreted as 

 asceticism. Of course, it never was a logical road, 

 or one that was possible to vigorous men. The 

 consequence has been that there was ever a re- 

 bellion against its standard by normal people and 

 a self-depreciation by those who, accepting the 

 standard as right and divinely imposed, never 

 could live up to it. 



Our own day is seeing the opposite extreme. 

 The study of nature is largely a study of phys- 

 ical nature. Its impulses and tendencies are be- 



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