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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![have not learned concentration them- selves. But control of attention can be cultivated,—its entire absence is a well-known medical criterion of fee- ble-mindedness,—many things need not be attended to, side issues and de- flecting suggestions must be ignored. It is not necessary to do or to utter everything that crops up in the mind. It is not necessary to do everything that occurs to you to do. Quite a small effort of attention will show that the suggestion is very likely a mere device of distraction. Though there are cases,—as when a question arises whether a letter ought to be written or not,—when the unpleasant path is the wisest,—the course which [33]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
