This is
accepted almost as of truism in daily life but is not the less harmful for such general
acceptance. It has been, through out the ages, considered reasonable and wise to resort to
various forms of self-deception to carry in one mind the load of these two isolated
disciplines of worldly wisdom and religion. Worse
still, it is also considered wise to practise fraud on the minds of our children for the
purpose of banding this scheme of isolation down to the next generation. Each one of us
has the responsibility of bringing up a certain number of children and shaping their
tender minds.
Parents and schoolmasters both practise deliberate fraud
where they owe their most sacred duty and abuse the trusting plasticity of the young mind
to fulfil this sacred object of perpetuating disharmony of thought and handing
it intact to the next generation! The unpleasant task is often sought to be transferred by
father to mother or vice versa, and by both to the schoolmaster. The work is done in the
untidy way in which all unpleasant tasks are bound to be done, but it is done so far as
the mischief is concerned. |