The sense of loneliness drives many to lower companionship when higher is hard to attain.

The lack of courage and the paralysis of faith in one's self or in others makes invalid many a nature which might otherwise achieve.

To prevent such waste from inner weakness and to "encourage excellence in each individual," to use Doctor Small's fine phrase, we need a childhood saturated with the sense of personal values on the plane of affection.

Selfishness may indeed pollute this mainspring of personal power, and selfishness sometimes reaches its acme in motherhood's partiality for its own.

The ideal of social solidarity and the claim of all upon each one must never be absent from the family influence if that influence is to be wholesome.