"I think so, of course," said Fellowes.
"So that all book-revelation is impossible."
"I affirm it."
"Very well,—I do not dispute it. There still remain one or two difficulties on which I should like to have your judgment towards forming an opinion: and they are on the very threshold of the subject. And, first, I suppose you do not mean to restrict your term of a 'book-revelation' to that only which is literally consigned to a book in our modern sense. You mean an external revelation?"
"Certainly."
"If, for example, you could recover a genuine manuscript of Isaiah or Paul, you would not think it entitled to any more respect, as authority, than a modern translation in a printed book,—though it might be free from some errors?"
"I should not."
"You would not allow that parchment, however ancient, has any advantage in this respect over paper, however modern?"
"Certainly not."
"Nor Hebrew or Greek over English or German?