It is found that the less any desired motive is bound up with particular acts, persons, or ideas, the greater is the chance of its being universalized and made good for life all round.

I do not intend by this statement to criticize any particular presentation of religion.

Nevertheless, educators ought to remember that a religion which is first entirely bound up with narrow and childish theological ideas, and is then presented as true in the absolute sense, is bound to break down under greater knowledge or hostile criticism; and may then involve the disappearance of the religious impulse as a whole, at least for a long period.
Did we know our business, we ought surely to be able to ensure in our young people a steady and harmonious spiritual growth.

The "conversion" or psychic convulsion which is sometimes regarded as an essential preliminary of any vivid awakening of the spiritual consciousness, is really a tribute exacted by our wrong educational methods.

It is a proof that we have allowed the plastic creature confided to us to harden in the wrong shape.