Excerpt from Child-Man in Britain
We know well enough not to interfere with his pre-natal life, we allow nature to do her work in her own best way. Afterwards we shall also beware of too much interference, lest the protected child should find himself in a less ha py situation than the neglected child, the fatheredp than the fatherless. The bonneted, booted infant trailing beside his nursema'id envies with a bitter envy the uncultivated Sprite paddling in the warm dust of the summer roadway. Disinherited he looks at the fair domain of free play, sunshine and heat, wind and cloud, berried hedge and mantling pond, bonfire and woodshed, rickyard and paddock. The cottager has all these, and he has only the painted walls of his nursery and the order of the garden.
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