Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1910
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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 previous ugliness will be clear, and wisdom will be justified of all her children. The key-note sound- ing through the history of the human race is preparation,—preparation for the race that shall be, for the advent of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. A child can realize this, in some sort, for he himself is likewise a preparation for the future. The very universe is not a Being, but a Be- coming; and in this pregnant saying of antiquity,—which may be regard- ed as the first inspired glimpse of the doctrine of evolution,—is to be found the clue to much Divine working, the justification of the ways of God to men. Creation is not a momentary but a [68]