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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![perennial act. Each stage in it is “good,” has a goodness of its own; no stage is perfect. Perfection is al- ways ahead, improvement is always possible; and it has at length become the conscious privilege of creatures to assist in this work of improve- ment. Nothing can be so inspiring to a human being as the idea that he is of value, that his help is really wanted. Nothing can so enforce the doctrine of responsibility as the realization that it rests with us to choose whether we shall mend or mar, shall beautify or deface, some portion of the work. I venture to say that the creation of free and responsible, and at the same time noble and worthy, beings, [69]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
