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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![before instruction; otherwise no progress will be made. In the inqui- ring mood they should be supplied with fact, i.e., with something that may be called the beginnings of science. In the imaginative mood with fairy tales; i.e., with something that can be called the beginnings of . literature. The habit of constantly asking whether a thing is true is an uncultured and inappropriate habit; it means that the wrong mood is up- permost. Some things are better than true. You do not call a sunset, or the Sistine Madonna, or St. Mark’s, Venice, or the fifth Sym- phony, “true.” A cloud, moreover, is not what it seems; and, going up into it, you find it merely a wet [53]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
