For instance, the connexion between reason and faith being once established, the fear of permanent disagreement between the two, which causes so much panic and disturbance of mind, is set at rest.
There is a certain risk at the outset of these studies that girls will take the pose of philosophical students, and talk logic and metaphysics, to the confusion of their friends and of their own feelings later on, when they come to years of discretion and realize the absurdity of these "lively sallies," as they would have been called in early Victorian times--the name alone might serve as a warning to the incautious! They may perhaps go through an argumentative period and trample severely upon the opinions of those who are not ready to have their majors "distinguished" and their minors "conceded," and, especially, their conclusions denied.

But these phases will be outlived and the hot-and-cold remembrance of them will be sufficient expiation, with the realization that they did not know much when they had taken in the "beggarly elements" which dazzled them for a moment.

The more thoughtful minds will escape the painful phase altogether.
There are three special classes among girls whose difficulties of mind call for attention.

There are those who frisk playfully along, taking the good things of life as they come--"the more the better"-- whom, as children, it is hard to call to account.

They are lightly impressed and only for a moment by the things they feel, and scarcely moved at all by the things they understand.