Personality, Too, Is Destiny.

You See A Child Play, And It Is So Close To Seeing An Artist Paint, For In Play A Child Says Things Without Uttering A Word. You Can See How He Solves His Problems. You Can Also See What's Wrong. Young Children, Especially, Have Enormous Creativity, And Whatever's In Them Rises To The Surface In Free Play.

The American Feels Too Rich In His Opportunities For Free Expression That He Often No Longer Knows What He Is Free From. Neither Does He Know Where He Is Not Free; He Does Not Recognize His Native Autocrats When He Sees Them.

These Same Experiences Make Of The Sequence Of Life Cycles A Generational Cycle, Irrevocably Binding Each Generation To Those That Gave It Life And To Those For Whose Life It Is Responsible. Thus, Reconciling Lifelong Generativity And Stagnation Involves The Elder In A Review Of His Or Her Own Years Of Active Responsibility For Nurturing The Next Generations, And Also In An Integration Of Earlier-life Experiences Of Caring And Of Self-concern In Relation To Previous Generations.

There Is In Every Child At Every Stage A New Miracle Of Vigorous Unfolding.

Adolescents Need Freedom To Choose, But Not So Much Freedom That They Cannot, In Fact, Make A Choice.