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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![most unwise; it deprives a child of naturalness, and adults of some pleasure. If small twins, for in- stance, having a joint birthday, are asked whose birthday it is; and if after looking at each other for a mo- ment they simultaneously respond “we’s,” any one who would attempt to correct the statement into ac- cordance with the rules of English grammar would be guilty of a minor kind of blasphemy. This parable summarizes all I have to say on that head. So again, in emphasizing truth of statement in its due time and place, it may be thought that I am against fairy tales. It is possible, I think, to cultivate them to excess; but to ex- 151]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
