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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Source: The Century of the Child, ch. 7, 1909.
-- Ellen Key, (Dec 11 1849-1926), Swedish writer, feminist; The Pallas of Sweden developed advanced ideas on sex, love and marriage, and moral conduct which had wide influence.

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