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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: safe as possible and then boldly taking and allowing others to take
the irreducible minimum of risk.
English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
It is easier to convert most people to the need for allowing their
children to run physical risks than moral ones. I can remember a
relative of mine who, when I was a small child, unused to horses and
very much afraid of them, insisted on putting me on a rather
rumbustious pony with little spurs on my heels (knowing that in my
agitation I would use them unconsciously), and being enormously amused
at my terrors. Yet when that same lady discovered that I had found a
copy of The Arabian Nights and was devouring it with avidity, she was
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