Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ href="#litres_trial_promo">Challemel-Lacour on the danger of priestly education

       Recent French Ultramontanism—Veuillot

       The Catholic party conspire against the Republic, May 1877

       Defeated at the elections—Anti-Clerical reaction

       The Supreme Council of Education remodelled

       Law expelling Jesuits, &c., from the schools

       Rejected by the Senate—The Ferry decrees

       Violent measures that followed

       Partial relaxation of the laws against unauthorised corporations

       Tests of competence—Public schools made gratuitous and secular

       Laws of 1881 and 1882

       Primary education made obligatory

       The case for purely secular State education

       National education ought to be an elastic thing admitting different systems

       Undenominational and united religious teaching in Protestant countries

       The English school board

       Advantages of simple Bible reading

       The American common schools

       Education in the British colonies

       The conflict between united secular and denominational systems

       Religious result of the school-board system

       The struggle for denominational State education in the Netherlands

       And in Ireland

       The English compromise

       Not likely to be permanent—Danger to the voluntary schools

       Principles on which the Legislature should act—The opinion of parents to be most considered

       The English compromise not possible in Catholic countries

       Unsuccessful conflict with the Church in Belgium, 1878–84

       Secular education stringently enforced in France

       Hostility shown to religion—Attempt to de-christianise the nation

       Arguments of the supporters of the system

       Their violence defeated their ends

       Sceptical Frenchmen often support religious education

       Anti-Catholic spirit in French legislation

       Divinity students and military service

       The tension in education diminished—The irreligious spirit diminished

       But ecclesiastical interference with politics stringently repressed

       Review of the principles at issue

       Catholicism likely to ally itself more and more with democracy

       The downfall of the temporal power strengthens the tendency

       Socialistic sympathies in the Church

       Best remedies against undue priestly influence in politics

       CHAPTER 7

       Sunday Legislation

       Sunday not the Sabbath

       Its observance in the early Church

       Laws of Constantine and Theodosius

       Sunday observance in the Middle Ages

       The Reformers clearly distinguish it from the Sabbath

       Cranmer and Elizabeth

       Growth of Sabbatarianism at the close of her reign

       Strengthened by the prevalent disorders on Sunday

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