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![A. B. C. sequence, each cause of inhar- mony is at once traced back to its first ex- pression in himself and then to causes influenced by his environments. If we find that the largest influences for good or bad originate with the right or wrong instruction of children during the home training or kindergarten period of their development, and that a dollar expended for education at that time is worth more for good than whole bancs of courts and whole armies of police to correct the effect of bad training and bad character later in life, it is quite logical to help promote the spread of the kinder- garten or the kindergarten idea to include all of the children born into the world, and to furnish mothers and kindergarten teachers with knowledge relative to the right nutrition of their wards which they can themselves understand and can teach effectively to children. If we also find that the influence of the kindergarten upon the parents of the in- fants is more potent than any other which can be brought to bear upon them, we see [318]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21529140_0346.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
