tained in it are
epitomized in the following blasphemous lines:

"_'In a word, Humanity definitely occupies the place of God, but she
does not forget the services which the idea of God provisionally
rendered.'_

"TESTIMONY OF REV. PROFESSOR LIDDON.

"Again, during the last two sessions of Parliament, a Select Committee
of the House of Lords sat to inquire into the condition of the English
Universities. The Marquis of Salisbury was the chairman. The evidence
taken before that committee reveals the appalling fact that infidelity,
or doubt as to the first principles of the Christian religion, nay, of
belief in God, is wide-spread in the Universities of England, and
especially among the most intellectual of the students; and that this
sad result is due in a great measure to the teaching and examinations.
In the first report for the session 1871, pp. 67, 69, and 70, in the
evidence of the Rev. Professor Liddon, D.D., Canon of St. Paul's,
London, and Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford, we find
the following passages:

_"Quest._ 695. _Chairman._--'Very strong evidence has been
given to us upon the influence of the Final School' (the
examination for degrees with honors) 'upon Oxford thought, as
tending to produce at least momentary disbelief.'

"_Witness._--'I have no doubt whatever it is one of the main
causes of our present embarrassments.'

"696.--'That, I suppose, is a comparatively new phenomenon?'

"'Yes; it dates from the last great modification in the system
pursued in the Honors School of _literae humaniores_. It is
mainly the one-sided system, as I should venture to call it, of
modern philosophical writers.'

"697.--'Is there any special defect in the management which
produces this state of things, or is it essential to the nature
of the school?'

"'I fear it is to a great extent essential to the nature of the
school, as its subjects are at present distributed.'

"Again, in answer to Question 706, the same witness says:

"'I ought to have stated to the noble Chairman just now that
cases have come within my own experience of men who have come
up from school as Christians, and have been earnest Christians
up to the time of beginning to read philosophy for the Final
School, but who, during the year and a half or two years
employed in this study, have surrendered first their
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