But it is possible to buy consistency at too high a price.

The laws and tendencies of Nature are what they are; and it is madness, not heroism, to ignore them.

To those who refuse to reckon with human nature, the day will surely come when human nature, evolving itself under the stress of its own forces and in obedience to its own laws, will cease to take account of them.[8] When the hands of the clock point to a quarter to ten, the religious education of the child is over for the day, and his secular instruction has begun.

That the religious education of the child should be supposed to end when the Scripture lesson is over, is the last and strongest proof of the fundamental falsity of that conception of religion on which, as on a quicksand, his education, religious and secular, has been based.
After Scripture comes as a rule Arithmetic.

During the former lesson the teacher, acting under compulsion, does his best, as we have seen, to deaden the child's spiritual faculties.