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
Advantages of simple Bible reading
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
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
Sunday Legislation
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
Growth of Sabbatarianism at the close of her reign
Strengthened by the prevalent disorders on Sunday
