one should bring him along in the midst of one’s work and allow him to see as much as possible. Then the perambulator is built very high, because the higher the child the better he can see. The nursery also has undergone a transformation. It conforms as rigorously to the requirements of hygiene as a hospital room, but the walls are full of pictures and the child lies on a stand which is slightly sloping and fitted high up, so that he can command a view of the whole of the environment and not of the ceiling only. This is the first throne for the child. The idea has been understood that the
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