CMP Review 2026-03-26

March 26, 2026

Something about Charlotte Mason’s Ourselves invites a pictorial response. I have seen many drawings of Mansoul, each emphasizing some different aspect of Mason’s powerful allegory. Here is one depiction, expressing this idea:

These various Ministers we may conceive as sitting each in the House with the ordering of whose affairs he is concerned. These Houses are, the House of Body, the House of Mind, the House of Heart, and the House of Soul.

You must not understand that all these are different parts of a person; but that they are different powers which every person has, and which every person must exercise, in order to make the most of that great inheritance which he is born to as a human being. (Ourselves, Book I, p. 10)

Have you our your children drawn illustrations inspired by Ourselves? What are your favorite aspects of those pictures?

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