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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![best fits our total scheme. The mo- tive power ebbs and flows, as Mat- thew Arnold says: We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill’d. All this is part of the creation of a will. It is the essence of self-deter- mination to carry through a purpose, undeterred by the golden apples that a competitor or a spectator may throw beside your path. This power of self-determination is essential to freedom. Fulfilment of a definite and prescribed task,—at first, indeed, pre- [34]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
