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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And why drag this dead weight of Sunday school over the whole
Christendom? It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire
and maturity should teach; but it is time enough to answer questions
when they are asked. Do not shut up the young people agains their will
in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour
against their will.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws", p. 72

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