Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 6: "Praise for the Gospel".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“The hope of the nation and of Christendom, and of the lands called heathen, alike is to be found in the indoctrination of little children in the knowledge of God's truth; for the missionaries will tell you that the adult heathen population of to-day are to die heathen; the minister will tell you that the adult, virtually heathen population of Christian lands to-day are to die in that condition, unless God showers down altogether unprecedented grace — with only such occasional exceptions as confirm this general and terrible law. If this be so, the hope of Christianity is in childhood. Towards childhood must be directed the work of the sappers and miners of the church. Here is the weak point of the enemy's fortress. Here let the breach be made, and his topmost turret shall be laid low.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 570.
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What I Think (1956), p. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=3OchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Fill+the+moral+vacuum+the+rational+vacuum+we+must+reconvert+a+population+soaked+in+the+spirit+of+materialism+to+the+spirit+of+humanism+we+must+or+bit+by+bit+we+too+will%22&pg=PA54#v=onepage
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Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 85
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled
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