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Coleridge and Thelwall on Children's Minds and Liberty

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 6.

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Coleridge and Thelwall on Children's Minds and Liberty

THELWALL told Coleridge that he thought it unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating opinions before it had come to years of discretion, and was able to choose for itself. Coleridge soon after showed him a portion of his grounds which was overgrown with weeds and thorns, and told him that was his botanical garden. “But it is covered with weeds,” said Thelwall. “Oh!” replied Coleridge, “that is only because it has not yet come to its age of choice and discretion. The weeds you see have taken the liberty to grow, and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil toward roses and strawberries.”