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Excerpt from The Development of the Child Nowadays things do not happen in quite the same way. Naturally, the influence of a strong man is, and always must be, felt. But outside of this there is a great tendency not to follow a leader quite as blindly as in the past. Men require something of a reason; they want an excuse for unquestioning obedience. They feel the need of answering for their acts to a conscience. In other words, there is a growing ten dency, although it may at the beginning be small, to think independently, to act independently. And where this individuality of action is touched by the glow of a spiritual idea, one begins to feel something of this doctrine of private effort, of an inward mission. And when the tendency to mass-action, to ready-made be liefs, is still further impeded, the belief in the self sufficiency of each man, each social unit, must be still more emphatic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
