Excerpt from John Sherwood, IronmasterA study of the mental and moral characteristics of children as altered, lost or valuably developed later in life would, I think, be interesting. Especially would this apply to the receptive and inventive imagination so often found in children and so often to all appearance lost as time affords material contradictions to the day dreams of the years of awakening intelligence.This quality which makes children wordless poets and is of the heaven which lies about us in our infancy may usefully reappear in manhood as an essential, not only of the poet but of the man of science and the inventor. In midlife it may ripen anew into forms of product which have something of the joyous freedom, the self-born beliefs, which are the prerogatives of that king of faeryland, the child.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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