The penalties which God has attached to the sins which he may almost be said to have provoked Man to commit, are so terrible and unjust that if the fear of them has not robbed life of all its sunshine, the reason is that their very horror has numbed Man's imagination, and made it impossible for him even to begin to picture to himself their lurid gloom.
In the West men have loyally striven to reproduce towards their children the supposed attitude of their God of Wrath towards themselves.

From very tender years the child has been brought up in an atmosphere of displeasure and mistrust.

His spontaneous activities have been repressed as evil.

His every act has been looked upon with suspicion.

He has been ever on the defensive, like a prisoner in the dock.