The mischief has been done before.

For the first twelve years the parents and the whole community forcibly insist on the child's living from the upper centers only, and particularly the upper sympathetic centers, without the balance of the warm, deep sensual self.

Parents and community alike insist on rousing an adult sympathetic response, and a mental answer in the child-schools, Sunday-schools, books, home-influence--all works in this one pernicious way.

But it is the home, the parents, that work most effectively and intensely.

There is the most intimate mesh of love, love-bullying, and "understanding" in which a child is entangled.
So that a child arrives at the age of puberty already stripped of its childhood's darkness, bound, and delivered over.