Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody.

  • Thompson, Elizabeth, 1821-1899.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    science. More of kindness, good-will, and an unselfish regard for the welfare of others, in all of our dealings and intercourse with them. And this means an unswerving love of truth. Let us leave all lying and deceit. Let.us learn to dread falsehood and dishonesty, as we do a direful pestilence. We need schools of moral- ity for the education and practical training of our highest sense of -right. At any rate we must have text-books of moral science, with their lessons well studied in all grades of our schools. Our schools, public and private, make it their chief aim to cultivate the intellect, which sharpens the mental wit and ingenuity, without the restraints of a living moral sense; and so, even in our respectable business circles, there are people who swindle, cheat, defraud one another out of the accumulations which they first got by unjust means from the producers, This, and all disorderly conduct, shows a fear- ful lack of moral education even among our most respected classes. Moral education is of the first importance ;