Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our...

The new-born child does not come into a natural environment, but into the civilised environment of the life of men. It is a “supranatural” environment...

There is a part of a child's soul that has always been unknown but which must be known. With a spirit of sacrifice and enthusiasm we must go in search...

It is plain that nature exercises a powerful supervision over this awakening, this fulfilment. The aim of the mother's care is higher than purely...

No one could have foreseen then that the child held within himself a secret of life, able to lift the veil from the mysteries of the human soul, that...

That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendour during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of...

The feeling we should have towards the new-born baby is not the compassion that we have for the sick or weak, but reverence before the mystery of...

In all diseases, physical as well as mental, the importance of events that have occurred in infancy is now recognised.

But the study of the child, not in his physical but in his psychological aspect, may have an infinitely wider influence, extending to all human...

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become...