A Plea for the Younger Generation an Intimate Talk on the Vital Question, of Telling the Truth to Children

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Excerpt from A Plea for the Younger Generation an Intimate Talk on the Vital Question, of Telling the Truth to Children: From an Altogether Human and Utterly Unscientific Point of View One beautiful summer night a few years ago a man who wrote books rose from his solitary desk, stretched himself, heaved a sigh of content because his chapter had moved well, laid down his well-smoked pipe, and went to the open window of his work-room. A young, slim moon hung shyly to the cloudless sky. The small white faces of tobacco plants whose eyes are closed in daylight gleamed everywhere and the scent of honeysuckle lay sweetly on the moveless air. God was in His Heaven and the beauty of His earth was almost incredible. All was well. Peace, content, and the spirit of work that is religion were in the house. Unborn To-morrow seemed to hold nothing but promise, Dead Yesterday nothing more of regret than is in the heart of every man. Upstairs in the old, warm. 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.