One more element was needed, and sorely needed, to enter fully into the mystery of the child. That element is faith. Evolution looked on the child as an epitome of its theory; pedagogy plotted out, weighed and measured the child and drew up formidable statistics; eugenics faced the child as though it were a dire microbe, source of poverty, ignorance, bootlegging, war, pestilence and famines. The modern child had and still has before it a dismal prospect. It is the camping ground of the specialist, the experimental laboratory of the theorist, and the peculiarly delectable victim of physical and moral vivisectionists. Faith must save the child, faith in the Babe of Bethlehem. Tabb and Thompson had that faith. They are the counterpart in literature of a St. Anthony or a St. Stanislaus in life and art. They play with the Child Jesus. Isucan has come into His own again. Tabb sings in “Out of Bounds”: O comrades, let us one and all Join in to get Him back his ball! And Francis Thompson with medieval intimacy asks in “Ex Ore Infantium”: And did Thy Mother at the night Kiss Thee, and fold the clothes in right? And didst Thou feel quite good in bed, Kissed, and sweet, and Thy prayers said? “Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven,” said Thompson. He will surely be at home there, and Tabb and many another will be with him. The first seven chapters of this work were given in substance as lectures at the Champlain Assembly, Cliff Haven, N. Y. Chapter XII, Educating the Emotions, is a summary of an address given to the Public School Teachers of Rhode Island. Other chapters have appeared in _America_, _Catholic World_, _Educational Review of Washington_, _School Interests_, _Classical Weekly_, _Magnificat_ and are reproduced through the courtesy of the editors. APPENDIX GREEK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AN ETYMOLOGICAL PHANTASY[4] During a period of lethargy I was petrified at a phantom, bounding from my lexicon, with this cataract of phrases: “Are you Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Catholic, or Christian? Without me, you are anonymous. Do you stigmatize heresy and schism, hypocrisy and blasphemy. Do you blame schemers against the Mosaic decalog? Do you impose anathemas in apostates, idolaters and atheists or exorcise the devil and his demons with their diabolical pomps? Are you zealous for proselytes, and to baptize neophytes after catechism, and to canonize orthodox martyrs with halos and emblems, scandalizing frenzied iconoclasts? Then all that is done through me.