An intelligent pupil seldom or never gives _too little_ weight to the opinion of his teacher: a wise teacher will never repress the free action of his pupils' minds, even when they begin to question his results.

"Forbidding to think" is a still more fatal tyranny than "forbidding to marry:" it paralyzes all the moral powers.
In former days, if any moral question came before me, I was always apt to turn it into the mere lawyerlike exercise of searching and interpreting my written code.

Thus, in reading how Henry the Eighth treated his first queen, I thought over Scripture texts in order to judge whether he was right, and if I could so get a solution, I left my own moral powers unexercised.

All Protestants see, how mischievous it is to a Romanist lady to have a directing priest, whom she every day consults about everything; so as to lay her own judgment to sleep.

We readily understand, that in the extreme case such women may gradually lose all perception of right and wrong, and become a mere machine in the hands of her director.