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Excerpt from The Children's Progressive Lyceum: A Manual, With Directions for the Organization and Management of Sunday Schools, Adapted to the Bodies and Minds of the Young, and Containing Rules, Methods, Exercises, Marches, Lessons, Questions and Answers, Invocations, Silver-Chain Recitations, Hymns A child is the repository of infinite possibilities. Enfolded in the human infant is the beautiful "image" of an imperishable and perfect being. In the baby constitution we recognize the holy plans of Divine Goodness - the immortal impartations of Divine Wisdom - the image and likeness of the Supreme Spirit - the possibilities of the greatest manhood, womanhood, or angelhood. The human mind is the most richly endowed. Its sphere of influence and action is the broadest. It is empowered to hold dominion over time, events, things, and circumstances. It draws its life unceasingly from the divine life of Nature. It feeds on the phenomena of truth. It aspires intuitively alter perfection. It rises to the sphere of individuality and freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.