C 2 Appendix E
COMMENTERS
with Names starting with
D
The Countess of Denbigh,
Member of the English Committee
of the International Home Education Congress.
"I was much interested in the leaflets you sent. They have the same aim as my article, which put in a pithy form before a large number of readers these simple but little known ideas."
The Right Hon. the Lord De Villiers, P.C., K.C.M.G.,
Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa.
"After all the kind words of sympathy and encouragement which so many eminent men and women have written to you there is very little left for me to say. I am in entire agreement with the whole tenor of the essays on Duty and Discipline, and feel sure that their wide circulation in South Africa will greatly help to promote the discipline and sense of duty of our children."
Alexander Devine, Esq., M.A.,
Head Master of Clayesmore School.
"I have read with the greatest interest your pamphlets on 'Duty and Discipline.' . . . Your series of papers sound a warning note that should reach every family in the land, and a call to all true lovers of their country to brace themselves up to meet the dangers of self-indulgence, slackness and lack of discipline that, unregarded, will as surely bring about our downfall as that of other nations of the world, but that, regarded, will enable us to hold our own bravely and nobly in the sight of God and of other countries,"
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, P.C.
"I return the form for the Duty and Discipline Movement, which I have filled up.
"I am very reluctant to undertake more work than I can help, as my time is already so very fully engaged, but if in a small way I can help I shall be glad to do what I can.
Mrs. Hugh Dixson,
President of the Women's Branch of the Empire League in Australia; Vice-President of the National Council of Women in New South Wales, etc„ etc,
"I can only say that as a whole the papers are excellent. I only hope that they may influence the thought of the parents and teachers in our land. One cannot but feel that the pendulum has swung too far, and that if discipline were hard on the children in the past, the want of it and of filial duty is very lamentable in the present day.
"I can speak from some experience as the mother of nine, that the insistence of respect and prompt obedience in the home only adds to the love and respect our children give us now they are grown up and independent of us.
"The Good Woman' of the Proverbs, I am quite sure, ruled her children as well as the rest of her household, and they rose up and called her blessed.'
"I wish your work all success."
Lady Dockrell, Ex-Chairman of Urban District Council, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
"The 'Duty and Discipline' series aims at producing a race of men and women worthy of our highest national traditions."
The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly,
Assistant Bishop of Dublin, Bishop of Canea.
"I have just found time to read through a few of the essays, and confess myself struck with the unity of thought and purpose which pervades them. There is no doubt there is need of the work, as family discipline has been too dangerously relaxed, and it will require strenuous efforts to re-establish it."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, D.L., LL.D.,
Novelist, Historian, etc.
"I think the ' Duty and Discipline' series is just what we want as a nation, and that you have done splendid public service in bringing these little books on the market. We do incline to be soft, morally and physically—but I try to think that the old fires burn underneath."
The late Rev. Canon Duckworth, D.D., C. V.0.
"I have read with great interest the leaflets. . . . My own observations—and I have seen during the last fifty years a good deal of the family and school life of all classes—fully accord with the views put forth in them, and I have long been convinced that the increasing lack of discipline is making havoc of our national character, and is one of the most serious dangers of our times."
Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D., LL.D.,
Consulting Physician St. Bartholomew's Hospital;
Senior Physician Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
"I am greatly pleased with the leaflets in the 'Duty and Discipline' series. Such teaching and advice are sadly needed in these days of flabbiness, pleasure seeking, ease loving, and mawkish sentimentalism. Apparently, the days for Solomon's rod and adequate punishment for offences have not passed by. We have an =whipped generation around us, and a sad spectacle it is. Universal service is the great remedy to meet the evils that have come with it—the one thing to enforce discipline, obedience, self-respect, and patriotic responsibility—and the sooner it comes the better. The loafing, idle¬ness, gambling, irreverence, and religious indifference of this twentieth century are clearly leading to the rapid decay in morals of masses of our countrymen, and it is well that some wise men and women are at last aroused to recognise this fact. Our modern Navy and Army are the finest schools for character that we now possess, but we must no longer have any easy-going shirkers."
The Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
"I think the ' Duty and Discipline ' pamphlets are excellent, and that they do a very useful and necessary work in bringing before parents of all classes their responsibility with regard to the training of their children in habits of discipline, and with a strong sense of duty."
The Countess of Dundonald.
"I have great pleasure in allowing my name to be placed on the list which you have kindly sent me. I am interested in education, as, until recent legislation placed the elementary schools under the control of the County Councils, I entirely managed and supported these, comprising nearly t,000 children, in our parishes."
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Dunedin.
"I deferred writing until I had an opportunity of looking into the 'Essays on Duty and Discipline' for myself, and am now able to say that I think it is just what is needed at the present time, and I hope it will get into a large circulation. The sentiments as to true Christian manliness are what I have tried to set forth in many sermons, but the misfortune is that the self-indulgent parents and indulged children are just the ones who are least likely to be present in church.
"No greater mistake is ever made than for parents to imagine that they will gain the love and respect of their children by letting those children always have their own way, and a sad experience proves the truth of this when it becomes too late to correct the error."
Leonard Dunning, Esq.,
Chief Constable of Liverpool.
"For some years past I have tried to direct attention to the decay of parental control which is responsible for the growing criminality among the rising generation. That decay is merely one symptom of the general tendency to shirk responsibility and to throw private duties upon the State.
"I have urged, as stated in the Courier, the necessity for parents waking up to their responsibilities, and speaking to men's P.S.A.'s I have quoted His Majesty's words which you print among your forewords.
"The decay of parental control is eating away the foundations of
the home ; the State and private enterprise are trying to repair the damage, but until the individual, in the person of the parent, realises that by his supineness he is bringing his home about his ears, the decay will work faster than the remedy.
"Crime is increasing fast and one of the most prolific reasons is the absence of discipline and a sense of duty in the young, for which parents alone are to blame."
The Right Rev. the Lord' Bishop of Durham, D.D.
"I cordially welcome the series as well-timed and well written."
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