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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![brilliant inspirations. Prophets and poets have been vouchsafed to us. We, too, are a chosen people, and we look forward to a world-wide fed- eration of the English-speaking race; but in spite of all that manifest guid- ance and enlightenment,—guidance as by pillar of cloud and of fire,— our national conduct is still dark, still are we too much influenced by a surviving savage creed, still are we essentially thoughtless and cruel, still far from the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount. Let not children sup- pose that in detecting the faults of a bygone generation we may with im- punity be blind to our own. But the leaven is working, and in the future dawns a great hope. The [66]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
