ouses, scattered all over this land,
_Americans_, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make
anything but a _true American_ out of a pupil who has been turned out
of the public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted
to assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these
schools.

The influence of the public schools works rapidly upon childhood and
is felt through all of their after lives. A child who has been
educated in the public schools of this country is always an
unrelenting foe of caste, but the child who is educated in the
parochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable superiors, and
such an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and teaches them to
continually look to others for their individual happiness, but the
teachings of the public schools broaden the individual mind and gives
courage, which enables the child to swing out from the influence of
others and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.

We touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in connection
with the dominating influence of the Pope over nations which he
completely rules, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand
that ignorance begets crime and crime begets illegitimacy, as we
expect to dwell more fully upon the education of nations in the
future, but we want the reader to begin at the "Alpha" of reason, so
that when he or she is through with this chapter that there will be
no doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds
illegitimacy among his followers.

We have contrasted the difference in morals of the inhabitants,
which are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the
inhabitants of Protestant America, but we have made this comparison
in a general way; but we now want to select a country which for its
absolutism of Catholic monarchy has no comparison, and that country
is Ecuador.

In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon the
inhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught, and the
consequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100 children born in
that country, seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no
idea of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so
vile that their actions are absolutely passed over without notice, as
there is scarcely a single priest to be found in that country but who
is the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty children; but
still the Roman Churc