If the adult is to be "saved" by strict and mechanical obedience, and by no other method, still greater is the need for such obedience on the part of the child.

If a system of external and quasi-material rewards and punishments is indispensable in the education of the adult, still less can it be dispensed with in the education of the child.

These _a fortiori_ arguments are strong; but there is a stronger.

The child will develop into the adult, and he cannot too soon be initiated into the life which, as the adult, he will have to lead.

The process of educating the child is not merely analogous to the process of "saving" the man.