Part 34 (2/2)

”Certainly not,” I said, and the lady crowed I do dislike questioners at any time, but when they crow! However, I tried to hide the

”What would you do?” she asked sweetly

”I don't know, uessI very probably would use the toe ofthat my own interest in cruelty was still alive But five minutes later I should try to discover as at the back of the boy's o I studied a ss off I never ot hi from a deep hatred of his teacher, and he had a bad inferiority coames like football and hockey because of his sense of inferiority All that rong with hi Life was too difficult for hi off wings was the destructiveness of the infant But the i to reone wrong

The child is born good, and all his instincts are to do good Bad behaviour is the result of thwarted desire to do good This is shown in the case of Toe 115

At one time I was absolutely certain that the Great War was caused by econo, and the losing party took up the sword I am not so certain now It may be that the cataclysm was a natural ebullition of human nature, and as a cause the econonificant as thethe last few decades education has been almost wholly intellectual and ave us the don, and ave us the cotton-spinner The emotional and the spiritual in mankind had no outlet In the unconscious of man there is a God and a Devil, and intellectual activities afford no means of expression to either And when any Godlike or devilish libido can find no outlet it regresses to infantile primitive forms; thus, while the brain of ic, the heart of s--cruelty, hate, and blood

It may be then that the as the direct result of the world's bad system of education No boy will destroy property if he is free to create property, and no nation will take to killing if it is free to be creative Intellectual education allows no freedom for the creative impulse; it not only starves the creative impulse but it drives it into rebellion An outlet is always a door to purification The old men who sat at ho bottled up, but the youngtalked cheerfully of ”Old Fritz” The chained dog soon becoery also

I have often said that the outrages of the Gerium became understandable to me when I studied a Scots school where suppressive discipline turned good boys into demons The brutality of the German army was a natural result of the brutality of their discipline So is it in the individual soul, and in the national soul

Intellectualiseants who enslaved the emotional life of the citizen and of the nation War was athis pent-up e of the beast in the heart ofhi Personally I do not believe that he is a wild beast until wehim; he is primitive and animal and amoral, but I believe that by kind treatoodly life The Devil is merely a chained God

The problem for man and for mankind is to reconcile the God and the Devil in himself The saint represses the devil; the sinner represses the God The atheist cries: ”There is no God!” because he has repressed the God in hiain, many people project their personal devil; the”Hang the Devil in me!”

Who and what is this devil we carry in our hearts? We cannot tame him unless we can know him The Freudians would say that he is the primitive unconscious, the tree-dweller in us But that explanation is not enough for er has no devil in hie ancestors leave us a devil as legacy? Yet the tiger is a devil whenever ; the er to er is bad it is assuhtered for our dinners ht well look upon ued that it is Authority that makes the beast in children a wild beast That is true, but it does not go down to first causes Why do adults exercise authority? To keep down the devil in themselves, the beast that _their_ parents and teachers made wild by authority Truly a vicious circle! But the devil is the cause of authority in the beginning

Since there is no devil in the tiger and the ox, the animalism of man cannot be his devil But an to have ideals Then it was that he began to talk of crucifying the flesh; then it was that the spirit illing but the flesh eak

The devil in o-ideal The ethical self says that honesty is good, and dishonesty coood, and hate then becoo-ideal; therefore it has no devil Man invented the devil to account for his failures

This brings o-ideal? Why should he praise self-sacrifice, love, charity, honesty, unselfishness, while he conteht be argued that he praises those attributes that ument as final Rather auely call the divine I think that there is a powercall it God or intuition or the superconscious or what-notthat draws s This spark of the divine raises man above the beast of the field, but yesterday he was the beast of the field, and like the _nouveau riche_, he scorns his huins

I am forced to conclude that ill not cease untilthe working partner of his primitive animalism When that time comes man will know that he is neither God nor devil, butround London suburbs looking for a school Of an evening I sit and think about how I shall furnish it

There will be no desks; instead there will be tables for writing and drawing on, chairs of all descriptions--arht backed chairs, stools The children will make the tables and stools, and we may make a combined effort to make and upholster an arm-chair

Then we must have at least one typewriter, not for office use, but for the children's use The children will use it to type their novels and poems, and I think they would be te their own anthologies in leather or coloured paper

There will be no school readers and no school poetry books I hope that with the aid of the typewriter each child will make his own selection of prose and poetry

The wall decorations will be left to the children, and if they bring bad, senti when they hang the reproductions of the work of Reustus John, Cezanne, Nevinson; I shall buy _Colour_ every_Eliza Jane_ with the to their notice _To Music_ (Schus like _Golden Sluramophone is a necessity, and all kinds of records will be necessary--Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rimski-Korsikoff, Harry Lauder, Fox Trots, Sousa O'Neill told ti classical music only Personally, I haven't reached that standard of taste yet; I still have Fox Trot elus, if possible

Now for the library I shall leave the choice of periodicals to the community, and I expect to find them select a list of this kind:--_Scout, Boy's Own Paper, Girl's Own Paper, Popular Mechanics, My Magazine, Punch, Chips, Comic Cuts, tit-Bits, Answers, Strand, Sketch, Sphere_ It will be interesting to watch the career of _Chips_; I will not be surprised if the community tires of _Chips_ in a month

Our book library will be stocked from the children's homes, I fancy