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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Children, Book, Character
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Spiritual, Children, Caring
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Family, Children, Home

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Children, People, May
Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.85

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