Children have many influences to deal with that come from without. Not only through other children come unpleasant and perverting suggestions in playtime, as an English saying goes, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do"; but also through older people. Old age often blunts the fineness of feeling; and even among the aged and trusted may be found monstrous tendencies which enjoy watching the spring of interest in the child; ignorant nurses, perhaps without thought of harm, will play with that interest, and there are monster souls who enjoy above all the thought of being the first to enjoy the passion of youth; and others, who have perhaps the greatest refinement and delicacy of thought and life and sentiment, but who find such an overwhelming attraction in the rigor, in the springlike beauty of youth, as not to be able to refrain from tampering with it, to get enjoyment and interest out of it in some way or other. Also there are many older people who have a hatred for the opposite sex which they impart to children. This is especially true of women; and it is not uncommon for women to make a mission of prejudicing young girls against a normal and healthy attitude towards men.