Excerpt from A Plea for the Younger Generation an Intimate Talk on the Vital Question, of Telling the Truth to Children: From an Altogether Human and Utterly Unscientific Point of View He laid an affectionate hand upon his dog's expectant head, blew out the candles, fastened up for the night and went to bed, thanking God for all His mercy, for youth and eagerness and dreams, and above all for his ability to send one brother to Oxford and the other to his art school. There did not seem to be even a little cloud out of the sea upon the horizon of either of them. The one was honest, healthy, fearless, and hardworking, the other high strung, temperamental and alight with the fire of genius but just as honest and apparently as healthy. 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.