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Where No Fear Was by Arthur Christopher Benson
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refinement of life. And this opens up a vast problem which cannot
be touched on here, because it is practically certain that many
children in poor and unsatisfactory homes sustain shocks to their
mental organisation in early life which damage them irreparably,
and which could be avoided if they could be brought up on more
wholesome and tender lines.






VII

FEARS OF BOYHOOD





There is a tendency, I am sure, in books, to shirk the whole subject
of fear, as though it were a thing disgraceful, shameful, almost
unmentionable. The coward, the timid person, receives very little
sympathy; he is rather like one tainted with a shocking disease, of
which the less said the better. He is not viewed with any sympathy
or commiseration, but as something almost lower in the scale of
humanity. Take the literature that deals with school life, for
instance. I do not think that there is any province of our
literature so inept, so conventional, so entirely lacking in
reality, as the books which deal with the life of schools. The
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