"Fables
should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles
as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions
as truths is a most terrible
thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through
great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved
of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition
quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so,
since a superstition
is
so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but
truth is a point of view, and so is changeable."
