will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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