The Children at the Phalanstery (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Children at the Phalanstery

Whom must we decide to be right, and whom wrong? We must first decide that the children are right, and then that the grown persons are wrong. Who pretend to be reasonable The grown persons certainly and there they are about the children, worrying, fussing, without being able to divine the cause of those tears; still more, they themselves very ofien cause those inno cent tears to flow, by their ignorance, their harshness, their fan cies; they pretend to regulate at their will the tastes of those children, and their steps, their words and their gestures.

But no, we must not yet blame the parents and the friends; alas they do what they can, they do what they have been taught, and it is not their fault if they do not succeed any better. We must blame all those philosophers, all those august doctors, who pretend to govern all things, and who know nothing they think they have penetrated the secrets of nature, and during the ages that great and small have lived in tears, they have not known how to dry a single one; and, very often, their false wisdom has mingled blood with the tears of the poor human race.

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