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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![who go right not because they are compelled, but because they choose,— not because they must, but because they will,—is a task far from easy, even to omnipotence. The assistance of every agent who can realize his place in the scheme is desired. Else were it blasphemous to maintain that there was ever imperfection; else the struggle of existence were a fiction and a sham. This, therefore, at bottom accounts for all the pain and sorrow and suf- fering that is not man-made. Most of our troubles are avoidable, and are due to human selfishness and un- wisdom; but some are not, some are inevitable,—brought about, as the ancients used to say, by the gods. [70]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
