Concerning Children Part 17

Generosity, teaching the child, 109.

Girl, reason for the majority of a, at eighteen, 293.

G.o.d, Hebrew traditions of, 34.

Goths, the, 61.

Grown people and children, 179.

 

Habit and tradition, the home the stronghold of, 35.

Hebrew traditions of G.o.d, 34.

Home, the, the stronghold of habit and tradition, 35.

as a place for children, 130.

Homes, the mother the domestic servant in the majority of, 233.

Honesty lacking in child-training, 110.

Horse-training, 71.

Hottentots, the, 293.

Household, physical conditions of the, a danger to the child, 238.

labour, mental capacities developed by, 247.

employment of skilled labour for, 276.

Houses not built for children, 120.

built for the adult only, 121.

House-service and child-culture, the relation between, 233.

qualities developed by, 243.

Housework, few women like, 245.

Human behaviour, the whole scale of, is natural, 256.

character, comparatively small progress in the, 251.

conduct, the word natural applied to, 257.

creature, mental workings of the, 50.

a self-governing intelligence, 40.

parentage, selfishness of, 178.

-parenthood, prolonged, 8.

progress, youth the fountain of, 21.

rights, children to understand the balance of, 188.

status, permanence of childhood as a, 119.

stock, improving the, 263.

being, the, a social const.i.tuent, 19.

who does not work contemptible, the, 275.

Humanity, degrees of, 3.

to improve, 6.

the time to develop the inheritance of, 17.

progress of, made through brain improvement, 149.

Humour, errors of the child not grounds for, 172.

Impertinence of children, the, 175.

Immaturity, biological advantage of a longer period of, 18.

Impressions of a baby, the, 49.

of a child, early, 77.

Improve, humanity to, 6.

Improvement, race, transmitted, 4.

all possible, in the individual to be made before parentage, 21.

of the human stock, the, 263.

Individual rights, maintenance of, by the mother, 195.

Individuals, social service must be given by, 20.

Infant mortality shamefully large, 246.

Inheritance of const.i.tution, our, 15.

Intelligence, the human being a self-governing, 40.

Instinct, parental, 177.

our dependence on the maternal, 263.

maternal, not sufficient to ensure good conditions to children, 267.

Inst.i.tutions, children in, 124.

mortality of children in, 126.

Jesuits, obedience of the, 34.

Justice, sense of, in children, 105.

Knowledge and wisdom, the difference between, 54.

Koran, the, 114.