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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. 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.

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Fabeln sollten als Fabeln gelehrt werden, Mythen als Mythen und Wunder als poetische Phantasien. Den Aberglauben als Wahrheiten zu lehren, ist eine schreckliche Sache. Der Kindergeist akzeptiert und glaubt sie, und nur durch große Schmerzen und vielleicht Tragödien kann er nach Jahren von ihnen befreit werden.

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