But laws and the police, whether their activities are good or bad, are in either case alike ineffectual.

They can for the most part only be invoked when the damage is already done.

We have to learn to go to the root of the matter.

We have to teach children to be a law to themselves.
We have to give them that knowledge which will enable them to guard their own personalities.[23] There is an authentic story of a lady who had learned to swim, much to the horror of her clergyman, who thought that swimming was unfeminine.

"But," she said, "suppose I was drowning." "In that case," he replied, "you ought to wait until a man comes along and saves you." There we have the two methods of salvation which have been preached to women, the old method and the new.