Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.
- Oliver Lodge
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and it is melancholy to reflect that parental influence may enable such spoiled young reprobates to control affairs in some corner of the em- pire. Though, indeed, it is true that stress of circumstances does then make men of some of them; but it is stress and not laxity that does it. The laxity, so far as it went, was wholly bad. Another valuable piece of nursery or home tradition is the delivery of messages in exact words. This is a matter to which I attach importance, —it is a sort of beginning of scien- tific training. A child sent on a mes- sage should not be allowed to para- phrase it and deliver something there or thereabouts. A message so [18]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
