I have added a new post to the Copy Book, Believe Me.
The people who wrote to Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) frequently asked him difficult questions. In 1878, one mother wrote to him asking how best to bring up her son, so that he understood good and evil. Dostoevsky was overwhelmed by the task she set for him, but he rose to it and replied with a letter of real sensitivity and common sense. His counsel could be summed up in the words of English statesman Edmund Burke, in his Letter on a Regicide Peace (1796): “Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other”.