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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![is no work for children. They must first take their history from author- ity, and on trust. Meanwhile, if for a time they take unquestioningly as history narratives which belong to a different category, no harm is done. The youth of the race doubtless did the same, or rather did not ask or worry about the difference. Evolutionally children should in such matters go through the phases of the past, and their course need not be hurried. To con- fuse them with rationalistic interpre- tation and criticism, to superpose modern explanatory conceptions on the plain tale of a mythology, at least to insist on such explanations pre- maturely, may be iconoclastic and [57]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
