CHAPTER III

THE CHILDREN

1. _Maternity._—Tendency to small families, its various causes—Marital misfortunes—How new arrivals were received—Unpopularity of feeding by the mothers—Children educated by the mother till the age of seven—Old system of hardening—New system based on reason. 2. _The Boys._—Necessity of developing individualism among them—Paternal education—Growing influence of the mother—College life—Greatness and decadence of tutors—Understanding between tutors and mothers—Excessive production of young men of fashion—Influence of the new ideas—Decline of the spirit of toil and discipline. Pages 70-85