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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![—fighting and tearing and sunk in bestial practices,—its nascent intelli- gence only serving to bring into greater prominence the surviving ele- ments of ape and tiger, to make the lusts and cruelties more awful. In- finite, indeed, must have been the pa- tience and long-suffering of the Deity. Out of such a world the patriarchs rise as majestic figures, earnestly striving after some begin- nings of an approach to the divine. An Abraham to-day offering up his son would be a fanatic. In his place and time it was an act of faith. Agamemnon similarly offered up his daughter Iphigenia. It was an act of worship,—the nascent idea of sac- rifice. “Other times, other man- 163]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
