Congenital Defect Characterized

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“A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie.... Children have been treated ... as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.”
—Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947)

“For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.”
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