Let us feed each helpless atom on statistics,
And pray Heaven he survives!
Let us cast away the out-of-date traditions,
Which our poets and romanticists have sung!
Let us sacrifice the senseless superstitions
That illuminate the fancies of the young!
If we limit our instruction to the “reals,”
We may prove to ev’ry baby from the start,
The futility of cherishing ideals
In his golden little heart!