The Dawn of Religion in the Mind of the Child

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Excerpt from The Dawn of Religion in the Mind of the Child: A Study of Child Life In a previous book - The Dawn of Character - I endeavoured to interpret the experiences of a child of our own day and generation, brought up amid happy and sympathetic surroundings. One chapter only in that book dealt with the dawn of the child's religious life: the book was mainly concerned with the development of his mind, his habits of action, his imagination, and his will. Yet complete development - of character as well as of intelligence - can, I believe, only be attained, when all these are dedicated to the highest ends: that is, when life is inspired by a religious purpose. I have therefore tried, in the following pages, to develop in greater detail the thoughts suggested in that single chapter, and to show the lines along which the religious development of the child takes place, as the initial impulse towards good, possessed in some degree by every child, is gradually strengthened into habit, setting free an increasing store of spiritual energy, which seeks its fulfilment in a righteous life, in which there is a conscious relation between the child and God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.