Jane Ellen Harrison [Archive.org URL]

In trying to impose its experience as a law to youth [Old Age] sins not only through ignorance, but from sheer selfishness. Parents try to impose their view of life on their children not merely or mostly to save those children from disaster — that to a certain extent and up to a certain age we must all do — but from possessiveness, from a desire, often unconscious, to fill the whole stage themselves.

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