The child : its spiritual nature / by Henry King Lewis.

  • Lewis, Henry King.
Date:
1896
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    in His estimate of a little child ; to trace its spiritual possibilities in the light of His doctrine, and to en- courage the preparation of the ground for that higher training of children, which a true appreciation of the subject demands. It is proposed, then, first, to discuss the child in his essential attributes, mental, moral, and spiritual; and the physical only as it stands in subordinate relation to, or affects the higher faculties of the child’s nature. Perez, Sully, Ferrier, Herbert Spencer, Houzeau and others, have supplied minute and most valuable in- formation on the early stages of childhood and make it unnecessary to go over ground they have so well occupied. As education, both in its principles and methods, has assumed the character of a modern science, so the study of the creature to be educated or developed grows more intensely interesting. Educational prac- tice will be brought more closely into harmony with the accepted principles, as the requirements of the nature to be developed are recognized. We want to handle the child, as we find him, with his ascertainable limitations, and his actual possibili- ties. For the discovery of these limits and possibilities can we adopt a more satisfactory course than that which the inductive method supplies ? We must protest, most vigorously, against beginning with theory, whether philosophical or theological. Living, healthy specimens are always to be had. B 2