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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![easier to do so, or because they think it pleasanter, or simply because they have not accustomed their minds to consider what the “truth” of any- thing is. A child, too, sometimes romances or exaggerates in an innocent man- ner through excess of imagination. This should not be taken too serious- ly, and sometimes the thing said may have a subjective truth of its own which an unsympathetic or hard- pressed senior can hardly appreciate. Instances of this sort are, I believe, not infrequent, and it is well to make large allowance; but in cases where there is no doubt, a child can grad- ually be brought to see that to say the thing that is not is to put itself [25]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
