FEAR’S SALUTARY INFLUENCE
Fear is a powerful motive to right conduct and behaviour, which are demanded by the State under penalty (writes Sir Robert Armstrong, in The Times). The mind of the child (as shown by evident manifestations and gestures) is highly susceptible to fear. A burnt child dreads the fire and adults practise prudence and forethought—which are among the highest virtues—through fear, the claims of the future being felt in the present. Is it not the fear of epidemics—for instance. of typhoid and diphtheria—that the State employs as a cultured apprehension to preserve the public health? Fear is a necessary element in rewards and punishment and even the withdrawal of approbation is punishment based on fear.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 26
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117FEAR’S SALUTARY INFLUENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 26
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