Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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Credit: Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greatness of any people must eventually depend upon one fact, and one fact alone : the efficiency of the generation to come. The future of a people is committed exclusively into the hands of posterity. And, such being the case, its security will be possible only in so far as the welfare of its children is assured. The child, one might truly affirm, is pre- eminently the problem of the hour : the problem of problems. But true as this is, the magnitude of that problem, as well as its wide-reaching significance, has hitherto all but escaped public notice. In a vague, sentimental fashion, it is true, we have felt the child to have certain in- definite claims upon society. But, for the most part, the solution of the problem has been, like so many others, neglected, or entrusted to the few. And in consequence of this it has been left very largely to our parents, teachers, guardians, and philanthropists to solve. The comparative failure on their part to provide any satisfactory solution of the problem has at length had the effect of setting it before us in its present acute and most complex form.
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