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Show Responsibility. That person who feels no responsibility responsi-bility leads an empty, aimless, useless existence. Broadly, of course, thera are no persons, not Insane or public charges, wholly without responsibility. Even the insane and paupers in public institutions are answerable or accountable account-able in a degree to the authority under which they live, in that they must conform con-form to fixed rules to the limit of their capacity for understanding them. For, answerability of the individual to the whole body being the very foundation of the security of society at large, the primary step In elevating the child,1 the backward or the crushed adult, even the feeble-minded, is the awakening awaken-ing of self-respect through Inculcation of a feeling of responsibility. |