The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the wo… - John Lancaster Spalding

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The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

John Lancaster Spalding

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John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight. - John Lancaster Spalding

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