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To cite this article: G. Stanley Hall (1891) The Moral and Religious Training of Children and
Adolescents, The Pedagogical Seminary, 1:2, 196-210, DOI: 10.1080/08919402.1891.10533932
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THE NORAL AXD RETJIGIOUS TRAINING OF CHIL-
DREX AKD ADOLESCEXTS.
El- G . STASLEYH A I . L .
God’s will is done. How man came to deviate from the ideal;
the cause and extent of the alienation ; how the ideal is to be
conceived, whether subjectively as conscience or a higher
instinct always pointing toward the undiscovered pole of
human destiny, or objectively as an offended deity who must
be placated by religions observances, or as the incarnate logos ;
how the reconciliation takes place, whether the divine ideal
inclines to u s or we to it first, most, or on what occasion and
motive, and in the face of what difficulties and with what kind
of mediation, if a n y ; and even whether the whole process be
literally real and actual, and accomplished in one time and
place for all times and places, or an expression for the whole
course of individual life and human history, immanent or
transcendent; or, finallx, as a sort of formulation which some
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