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300 The Century of the Child
opposed to all that experience and evolution
teaches us about existence, that one cannot
even conceive of the possibility of holding both
ideas theoretically at the same time. Much
less can one practically unite them by the
paste of compromise. The child with sharp-
sighted simplicity does not allow himself to
be deceived. If we do not wish to speak the
truth then let us not speak to children about
life at all—life in its unity and diversity, its
manifold creative acts, its process of continu-
ous creation, its eternal divine subjection to
law.
But this means that it is impossible to save
the Christian God for children, after the child
begins to think about this God, in whom he is
taught blind confidence. Nor can the child
be prepared in this way for the new concep-
tion of God with its religious, its uniting and
elevating power, I mean for the conception of
a God whose revealed book is the starry heav-
ens, and whose prophetic sight is in the unfath-
omable sea, and in the deeps of man’s heart, the
God who is in life and is life. Nothing shows
better how imperfect is the real belief of mod-
ern thinkers, than the fact that they always
teach their children a system which they do
not wish to live by spiritually themselves, but
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