The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget.

  • Stephen Paget
Date:
1914
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Credit: The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them ? There is nothing to be done, for there is nothing that can be undone. But we must do something, for we brought them here ; and we knew that they would again and again go wrong, and be in pain—and all the same we brought them here. This attitude of contrition is in strict accord with the facts of the case; none the less, it is rather like a circus-horse going down on its knees, in the sawdust, at the crack of a whip ten yards away. My conscience, stand up on your feet like a man, square your shoulders, and remember the words of Cordelia to her father : ‘ Good my lord. You have begot me, bred me, loved me ; I Return those duties back as are right fit: Obey you, love you, and most honour you.’ That is the children’s way. They thank us for being their parents ; and some of them, at school or at college, think of us when they hear the text, Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers who begat us. They do not doubt that we did well to bring them here; they honour us as the authors of their being : and on Commemoration Day they extend to us the oath of allegiance, and exalt us into the company of the famous men. Thus content with us, and more than content, they do not, as they might, call us to account when things
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