“It will be so much the worse, if you add argument to convince them of what is incorrect.”
“I doubt that. Falsehood will expose itself the sooner that honest argument is used to support it.”
“You cannot expect them to judge of what you tell them.”
“The Bible urges upon us to search and understand.”
“I grant that for those whose business it is, like yourself.”
“Do you think, then, that the Church consists of a few privileged to understand, and a great many who cannot understand, and therefore need not be taught?”
“I said you had to teach them.”
“But to teach is to make people understand.”
“I don’t think so. If you come to that, how much can the wisest of us understand? You remember what Pope says,—
‘Superior beings, when of late they saw
A mortal man unfold all Nature’s law,
Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape,
And show’d a Newton as we show an ape’?”