Legislation for the old and hardened, and education for the young and tender.

I would tell the schoolboys and schoolgirls that alcohol will destroy the framework of their beautiful bodies, and that cruelty to any of God's living creatures will blight and destroy their innocent young souls." The young man spoke again.

"Don't you think," he said, "that you temperance and humane people lay too much stress upon the education of our youth in all lofty and noble sentiments?
The human heart will always be wicked.

Your Bible tells you that, doesn't it?
You can't educate all the badness out of children." "We don't expect to do that," said the old lady, turning her pleasant face toward him; "but even if the human heart is desperately wicked, shouldn't that make us much more eager to try to educate, to ennoble, and restrain?
However, as far as my experience goes, and I have lived in this wicked world for seventy-five years, I find that the human heart, though wicked and cruel, as you say, has yet some soft and tender spots, and the impressions made upon it in youth are never, never effaced.

Do you not remember better than anything else, standing at your mother's knee the pressure of her hand, her kiss on your forehead ?" By this time our engine had arrived.