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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![evils and ugliness of the present time have in them all a note of prepara- tion, the nineteenth century was a period of strenuous activity of which we have not yet begun to reap the fruit. The old placid times have given place to a restless period of materialistic activity,—to the despair and lamentation of some of our prophets,—but the end is not yet. Even so a country-side, defaced and bemired by the litter of a builder’s yard, looks hopelessly spoiled, and may fill the onlooker of that day with regret. And yet in due season, when the building shall have been erected,—the palace, the ca- thedral, the structure of use and beauty,—the note of preparation in [67]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
