38/40 "Culture," says Emerson, "shall yet absorb chaos itself," Every child has a rightful citizenship in that order-giving world of thought, of history, of poetry, of art, of science, and of religion. The eighteenth century was called the century of man, the nineteenth century, of women, and the twentieth, that of the child. What facts justify this statement? What are the main elements in the modern standard of child-care, child-protection, and child-nurture? What of these elements can and should the private home supply, and what must be the community provision and control? |