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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![lurking for them round the corner, what can they do but believe the statement? until experience shows that it was an abominable invention. Superstitions again, — children would hardly invent them, and they might die a natural death, were it not that they are handed down by each generation to the next. I do beg people to be satisfied with having had the incubus of meaningless rubbish transmitted to them; let them now cut off the entail. What frightens some children is loneliness. Their loneliness can be a severe ordeal. Real loneliness, lone- liness in the universe, such as none of us have ever experienced, would be perhaps the most alarming and [27]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
