As a rule, the most clamorous apostles of the new doctrines hailed from the New World. In 1904 Mr. G. Archibald, a "Child Specialist" of Montreal, gave utterance to the now familiar view that "Whenever you say 'Don't' to a child you crush the creative instinct within him which is the richest and most precious thing he has." _Punch_, it is hardly necessary to remind the reader, was not likely to subscribe to this view. Had not the _Daily Telegraph_ referred to his advice to those about to marry--_Don't_--as "the memorable monosyllabic monition of the Democritus of Fleet Street"? So we are not surprised to find him enlarging ironically on the precept of Montreal:-- Should the genius of Marmaduke lead him to rear, From the dining-room floor to the ceiling, A palace of crystal and china, oh! fear To exhibit an atom of feeling. But your Satsuma bowl you will cheerfully bring, And, where others would threaten to skin him, You will beg him to do as he likes with the thing, Lest you crush the creative within him. If Lucy refuses potatoes and bread, And calls for méringues and for trifle, Or anything else that may enter her head, Such yearnings another would stifle. You will hand her a menu-card, beg her to state What she happens to fancy for dinner, And pray that you never may find it your fate To crush the creative within her. Advancing years failed to reconcile _Punch_ to the non-repressive method. As late as 1912 one of his artists depicted the chaotic results in an elementary school of realizing the ideals of one of the pamphlets of a Teachers' Association, viz., to place a child "in an atmosphere where there are no restraints, where he can move freely about in the schoolroom, where the teacher is essentially a passive agent and where there is no punishment." [Sidenote: _The Sompting Experiment_]