John Morley: “People take great trouble to tell a child that he must be just…”

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People take great trouble to tell a child that he must be just, temperate, and virtuous; and has it the least idea of virtue?

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John Morley

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Morley questions whether children truly understand the concepts of justice and virtue that adults insist upon teaching them.

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