‘There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five,’ the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once observed. It looks like the miserable old German was correct. It provides an explanation for the growth of progressive children’s books.
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