Mr. Grey talked to his pupils of things they knew little or nothing
about. This world is very real to the young; the next world is very
shadowy and hypothetical. The only persons whom Mr. Grey’s appeal would
reach would be those pupils who had been brought up with religious
training—_i. e._, the children who would not need it. In separating
education and religion, time and eternity, mind and soul, he used
outworn and abandoned conceptions of things, foreign alike to modern
thoughts and to pupils’ knowledge. In assuming that they would not like
it at first, he frightened them away from the duty urged upon them.