SAMUEL BUTLER.

"I think the Church Catechism has a good deal to do with the unhappy

relations that commonly even now exist between parents and children.

That work was written too exclusively from the parental point of view;

the person who composed it did not get a few children to come in and

help him....

"If a new edition of the work is ever required I should like to

introduce a few words insisting on the duty of seeking all reasonable

pleasure and avoiding all pain that can be honourably avoided. I should

like to see children taught that they should not say they like things

which they do not like merely because certain other people say they

like them, and how foolish it is to say they believe this or that when

they understand nothing about it."

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