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Religious Instruction 313
for the protection of sacred human and civil
rights.
Self-defense, personal or national, will be
imprinted on the child as the first of duties,
not as it is represented in the commands of
Christianity. Or to speak niore accurately
the child has this instinctive feeling; all that
need be done is not to confuse this instinct.
The child understands quite well, that evil
men, when not resisted, become lords over the
property of others. He knows that the low
and the unrighteous get the victory, and that
right-thinking and high-minded people are
sacrificed by unrighteous and low-thinking
people. The impulse to resistance is the first
germ of the social feeling for righteousness,
and by this feeling will the unreflecting judg-
ment of the child be led also in the study of
history. The child never doubts that Wil-
liam Tell was right, even when, in his instruc-
tion in religion, he has been definitely taught
obedience to the powers that be, that come
from God. Every straight childish soul ap-
plauds Andreas Hofer, despite his uncom-
promising conflict with lawful authority. With
his natural directness the child cuts off all soph-
isms; at least all children do who are not
irrevocably stupefied by Christian principles.
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