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<h2> If Youth, </h2>
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throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it;
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to show a doubting world that a child can think;
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and, possibly, do it practically;
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you wouldn't constantly run across folks today who claim that "a child don't know anything."
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A child's brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport.
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# Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play.
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But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. "You can't do this," or "that puts you out," shows a child that it must think, practically, or fail.
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Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of "status quo," as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.
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