Then the child will be all gentle, all tender and tender-radiant, always enfolded with gentleness and forbearance, always shielded from grossness or pain or roughness.

Now the father's instinct is to be rough and crude, good-naturedly brutal with the child, calling the deeper centers, the sensual centers, into play.
"What do you want?
My watch?
Well, you can't have it, do you see, because it's mine." Not a lot of explanations of the "You see, darling." No such nonsense .-- Or if a child wails unnecessarily for its mother, the father must be the check.

"Stop your noise, you little brat! What ails you, you whiner ?" And if children be too sensitive, too sympathetic, then it will do the child no harm if the father occasionally throws the cat out of the window, or kicks the dog, or raises a storm in the house.

Storms there must be.

And if the child is old enough and robust enough, it can occasionally have its bottom soundly spanked--by the father, if the mother refuses to perform that most necessary duty.