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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![response of man to God,—its mis- conceptions are pathetic, its inspira- tions are sublime. Here we have ut- terances of the wise and illuminated among mankind, embedded in a most human document, and preserved for us in splendid language by the de- voted labours of scholars of many periods; a rich inheritance which we owe to the loving care of our fathers, and which it is our duty to hand down to our children as a birthright of which no trivial bickerings, no sectarian differences and illiteracy, should be allowed to deprive them. How much can children under- stand of all this? How far can they grasp the evolutionary aspect of an- cient human documents? [60]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
