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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![I believe they can grasp it very well. Only let their teachers get the right point of view, and the children will experience no difficulty. The difficulties which now they genuinely experience are quite other than that, and are the necessary outcome of mistaken modes of regarding the documents as one literal and me- chanical scientific treatise, an in- fallible record of physical truth. Thus regarded, there are indeed things that puzzle, and things that repel. Orders are put into the mouth of Jehovah which emanate quite naturally from a priesthood, and find in that origin an ample ex- planation. Neither the book of Nature nor [61]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
