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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Religious Instruction 297
It is my deepest conviction that man, with-
out religion in the emotional element of his
nature, can pursue no ideal ends, cannot see
beyond his own personal interest, cannot
realise great purposes, cannot be ready to sac-
rifice himself. Religious enthusiasm broad-
ens our soul, binds us to the acts we hold as
ideals. But because Christianity weighs upon
the soul and can no longer be the connecting
link of all factors in our conduct, earnest men
are abandoning it more and more, influenced
by purely religious reasons. Such men should
not have their children brought up as Chris-
tians, under the excuse that the child requires
Christianity. Here, as in other cases, in
which adults are not agreed about what the
child needs, we should try to get, not from
adults but from children themselves, some in-
formation about their real needs. In this way
we can learn that the child himself begins at
a very early period to be concerned with the
eternal riddles of mankind, to be troubled with
the questions of whence and whither. At the
same time one discovers that the sincere and
honest childish nature is opposed to the Chris-
tian explanation of the world, until the child’s
sincerity is dulled and he either takes without
question what is taught, or in his own soul

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