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Excerpt from The Power of Play: A Discussion on the Place and Power of Play in Child-Culture
T is not the purpose of this book to discuss the psychological aspect of play, but rather to treat the subject in a popular and suggestive manner. Psychological works on the subject have been consulted and are frequently quoted, but the discussion has been carried on with the aim of removing, if possible, the fears and perplexities of the parent and the teacher, and to show that the deep-seated and unconquerable love of play is not something that has to be opposed and suppressed, but rather fostered and cultivated. The pietist Tollner once said: Play, of what ever sort, should be forbidden in all Evangelical schools and its vanity and folly should be explained to the children, with warnings of how it turns the mind away from God and eternal life, and works destruction to their immortal souls. 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.
