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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![Even so it is with all great works: the end when fully realized is seen to justify the intermediate stages. In human creations, too, the element of pain is not absent, its presence res- cues them from insipidity. In any noble tragedy the suffering is felt to be worth while. “King Lear,” for instance, is a work of pain and sor- row and beauty. To achieve the beauty, the pain was necessary, and its creator thought it worth while; he would not have it otherwise, nor would we. Seen from the point of view of the Creator, all the pain and trouble in the world is either remediable by human agents, or is justified and necessary; it is worth going through, [71]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
