Excerpt from Misunderstood Children: Sketches Taken From Life A Which one of us is it who does not feel that he or she possesses unused ability that might have developed into real talent, some times almost into genius if it had been given a chance. It is for the sake of these might bes in each human soul that I plead for a bet ter and more sympathetic understanding of children. No inheritance of money or of social position, so fiercely striven after by so many parents, can compare with the gift of a free and fully developed childhood.

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