But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.