Few seem to understand that the true end is not to keep their children from doing what is wrong, though that is on the way to it, but to render them incapable of doing wrong. While one is capable of doing wrong, he is no nearer right than if that wrong were done—not so near as if the wrong were done and repented of. Some minds are never roused to the true nature of their selfishness until having done some patent wrong, the eyes of the collective human conscience are fixed upon them. Doubtless in the disapproving crowd are many just as capable of the wrong as they, but the deeper nature in
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