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ABOUT PEOPLE.

belongs to the noblesse, the world's greatest and noblest, through the insignia of character; but because, being unconsciously noble and great, he cannot help being tender to others; strength makes tenderness.

Another phase of the rights of individuality among members of the same household relates to questions of religious belief. The parent is bound to mould his child into the parent's highest ideal while it is very young; but, also, must he soon begin to lay before it the fact that men as conscientious or as wise as himself think differently. It may puzzle the child; but unconsciously will it be the foundation of his later liberality in judging of mankind. The parent's emphasis can always indicate that his conviction of truth is the only one his intellectual honesty justifies him in holding. Thus the abstract law of the relativity of truth, and its positive, personal application to the individual, are both maintained. While the child is young he expresses his rela-

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