Excerpt from The Jewish Faith: Its Spiritual Consolation, Moral Guidance, and Immortal Hope a Brief Notice of the Reasons for Many of Its Ordinances and Prohibitions
Childhood is the age of belief - youth of inquiry. The former is satisfied to receive, and believe in the information imparted. It is very seldom (except in the case of the childhood of genius), that the infant mind will either examine or doubt the lessons of parents and teachers, but will imbibe them almost unconsciously, and act upon them instinctively, satisfied, that to obey is the happiest course of acting, and that they cannot do wrong, if they imitate those about them. Even in badly regulated children, rebellion and defiance and disobedience proceed, not from an idea of superior intelligence and greater power, but simply from the supremacy, for the time being, of those strong passions and evil inclinations inherent in man's nature. We do not mean to assert that childhood has neither character nor sensibilities of its own; that heart and mind are both stagnant, and therefore that its training is of little consequence. Far from it.
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