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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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3o6 The Century of the Child
ardent zeal for holiness will be strengthened
by an ability to draw the standards of life as
freely from the Bible as from the world’s lit-
erature. The same result will be produced by
books on other religions, like Buddhism, from
the great religious personalities who illustrate
the struggle for an ideal, and from such child-
ren’s books as show like efforts in a healthy
form. No child has the slightest need of the
catechism or theology for his religion or for
his training; no other church history is needed
than that connected with the general history
of the world. In this last study the chief
stress should be laid in teaching on the errors,
in order to impress on the young the convic-
tion, that all new truths are called by their
contemporaries "errors." In other words
these *’
errors " are the best negative material
man has for discovering the truth.
Working over and explaining the contra-
dictions met with by the child in such religious
instruction, as I am outlining here, belongs to
the preparation for a true Hfe, in which people
have to put up with innumerable contradic-
tions. But this personal work injures neither
the piety nor the soundness of the child’s soul.
Such injuries come rather from irritating
pietism or vain hypocrisy, from spiritual

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