He thought that young children should be allowed to read picture books in church during the sermon, so that church would be a bright and happy memory,

It's the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, born in Cheshire, England (1832). He was a painfully shy mathematician and church deacon who kept fastidious charts showing what his guests had eaten when they'd dined with him and what chair they'd sat in. He even summarized and filed all of his correspondence in a catalogue system containing 98,000 cross references. Afflicted by a stammer, he was more comfortable with children than with adults, especially with the three young daughters of his college dean. While taking them on a rowboat outing in July of 1862, he spun a tale about a girl named Alice, who fell down a rabbit-hole into an unexpected underground world. The middle daughter, whose name was Alice, begged him to write the story down for her, and so he obligingly scrawled out what became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1863), followed several years later by a sequel called Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He thought that young children should be allowed to read picture books in church during the sermon, so that church would be a bright and happy memory, and so they wouldn't turn against religion later in life.