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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![scribed by others, but later by your- self; prescribed, that is, by the whole intelligence and purpose of your being,—this is what is meant by a dependable trustworthy character, one that can be counted on to do what it decides to do, one that is not at the mercy of whims and random impulses, one that has overcome caprice and is able to reject tempta- tion and is not a creature of impulses nor the slave of anything but its own will. That is freedom, when you act in accordance with your own will, and are not driven hither and thither by every passing impulse. The evil- doer, as Plato in the “Gorgias” lays down, the evil-doer is a slave,—a [35]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
