“Hitting a child is worse than murder!”

— Irving Fiske

Source: Spoken to parents hitting their children by Irving whenever he saw it. Also spoken in most of the talks he gave on psychological transcendence and awareness. It probably appears in one of the books or magazines with pieces on Q. Hill and Irving Fiske, but I will need to look for it.

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