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

  • Lewis, Henry King.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The child : its spiritual nature / by Henry King Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    words when I and my cousin Clotilde, were laying our heads on the same pillow, ‘ My God, I give you my heart.’ I don’t know why I understood that more than the rest, for there is much that is metaphysical in these two words ; however I did understand them, and it was the only part of my prayers in which I had some idea of God, and of myself. As to the Pater, the Credo, and the Ave Maria which I knew very well in French, except ‘ Give us this day our daily bread,’ I might just as well have said them in Latin like a parrot, they would not have been more unintelligible to me.” The Essential and the Accidental. It is necessary to distinguish between what is essen- tial, and what is accidental in this as in every other subject proposed for our consideration. A jewel in the diadem of a queen is essentially the same as a jewel on a dungheap. In his diary. Lord Shaftesbury writes :—“ At Man- chester, I perambulated the town on Saturday night in company with two inspectors, and passed through cellars, garrets, gin-palaces, beer-houses, brothels, gaming-houses, and every resort of vice and vio- lence Saw a darling little girl, seven years old, in the very depth of dirt and uproar. Never did I witness such beauty of natural, untaught affection towards its rough and unkind mother.”