(The website of St. Stephen's Society and in loving memeory of Jakie Pullinger's ministry for Christ.)
The child finds the world so complex and varied with so many unpleasant experiences that he soon discovers the usefulness of his elders in providing him with pleasant experiences or in warning or guarding him against the unpleasant whenever he feels uncertain in a new situation. That is, the child tends to fall back on the authority of the older person and automatically to accept, up to a certain point, the dogmatic verdict of his elders as to the desirability or undesirability of a course of action. Neither the child nor the grown person is, as a rule, conscious of his acceptance of the thought of another as his own, but examples of it are evident enough in the spheres of religion, politics, precedent (in law), fashion, and, in fact, all of life's activities.-- Stuart H. Rowe, "Proceedings of the Religious Education Association." 1907
