In the beginning the child has no personal responsibility; its birth follows the birth of the babe at a considerable distance. It is only well toward maturity that this becomes com plete indeed it is a prime purpose and test of education to produce personal responsibility. But education begins with birth, nay before birth. The highest product, man, is slowest in pre-natal development and in shifting for itself after birth. Thus the experience gained by the parents is stored in the child, to an extent broadly dividing man from his fellow animals. Nature is here a banker, and ad vances to each generation the parental care it is expected to pay back through the gen erationdsucceeding.

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