The most hideous crime against humanity,” she reminded me, began with a legal election. It is not, therefore, purely on the level of politics that we avert the unconscionable. It begins deeper, she said: in the moral foundation of the people, which is laid early in life; it begins with the impulses we nurture in our young. (Maria Popova, What Makes a Compassionate World: Sophie De Grouchy’s Visionary 18th-Century Appeal to Parents and Teachers)