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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![desperate sensation that man could have. The providential arrangement of parents and guardians keeps the loneliness of infancy far from that, but nevertheless it is real and alarm- ing at times; it is the loneliness of in- carnation, it is the isolation of the body. Mind unites, body separates, or individualizes. Infants are be- ginning to be partitioned oil from the surrounding mental and spiritual whole, and encased in a body; they are undergoing the process of indi- vidualization; they may well feel as if no one here understood them, and they are necessarily lonely. They seldom confess to it, nor are they capable of putting the idea into words. Persons cannot prevent this [28]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
