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Moreover, they ( = children) are at an age at which the formation of new habits is still easy; and good habits can make a great part of virtue almost automatic. Theories which justify cruelty almost always have their source in some desire diverted by the will from its natural channel, driven underground, and at last emerging unrecognised as hatred of sin or something equally respectable. The control of bad desires by the will, therefore, though necessary on occasion, is inadequate as a technique of virtue.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926
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