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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![the book of human History can be taken at its face value; they both re- quire for their full apprehension a trained mind and a favorable point of view. Seen from the right aspect, however, both are luminous, and full of the energising action of the Di- vine Spirit. If still the behaviour of the Tribes in the Desert, or after their entry into the Promised Land,—if still the behaviour of the patriarchs or of the best among the kings,—is puzzling and inferior to what we might have expected, we have only to try to realize the condition of the average world at that epoch. Mankind emerging from savagery must for long have been an unlovely spectacle, [62]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)