It is the greatest mistake to impose them upon children as authoritative and divine all at once.

It at once diminishes their interest: we ought to work slowly up through the human side.
"The Pauline Epistles I have given him to read in extracts.

I believe they are best in extracts--one can omit the controversial element.
And he has taken, as children do, to the Revelation enormously, and gets much mysterious delight from it.
"A long and wearisome letter this, and not, I feel, satisfactory.

I haven't done justice to the side of tradition, the _jussum et traditum_, but that is the fault of my mind.

I have only been professing to represent the other side.
"I would like to thrash the matter out further.