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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![light of Evolution, and with a de- veloped historical sense, the litera- ture of the growth of humanity toward a worthy conception of Deity, —a conception always growing but still infinitely and forever below reality,—the record of its early struggles and mistakes and well- meant gropings after truth, espe- cially the history of the religious de- velopment of that people whose in- stinct for religion blossomed and bore fruit even in the darkest ages of mankind, is full of interest and in- struction. Read as an infallible theological treatise concerning the varying ways of God to man,—it is confusing, puzzling, and immoral. Read as a history of the developing [59]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
