A child deserves the maximum respect.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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.
