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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![devices of language are conventional. To test convention, one has only to bethink oneself whether a statement is applicable only to England or to every country in the world. Some things are true throughout the uni- verse, some things true only for the planet. Things that are true every- where and for all time are clearly worthy of thorough apprehension. Some things are true both here and hereafter, — beyond these present bounds of time and place,—these are the most vital of all. It would surely interest a child to bethink himself whether a fact is true in one of these senses or in the other, —valid here and now, or valid sent- [47]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
