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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![rather stupid. There is plenty of the only truth of value in ancient and long surviving legends,—else they would not have survived. The histories of the Creation and the Fall of Man, properly under- stood, are legends of profound truth, —truth to human nature,—and it is only a shallow sciolism that has tried to place them in the region of things that must be questioned. Works of art are not to be scrutinized in terms of a rigid literalness; in these mat- ters it is preeminently true that the letter killeth, the spirit giveth life. The whole truth in such matters is far beyond us, even yet. We are still developing, still only in the morning of the times. Read in the [58]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
