By representing children, in the immature state which they feel they are in, as in fact mature, by endeavouring to make them satisfied with the way they are, this method distorts and obscures the true need of the children themselves for some thing better; it creates in them on the one hand an indifference towards, and imperviousness to, the substantial relations of the spiritual world, and on the other a contempt for people inasmuch as they have presented themselves to them in a childish and contemptible light, and finally a vanity and self importance which revels in its own excellence.