dings of the Councils of Trent;" and added,
"Father Thyner having determined to publish an account (which had
never before been published) of this Council, was forbidden to do
so, and banished, or driven from Rome, when he went to Hungary, and
published his great work on the Councils."

I have observed in the papers, that Father Thyner died in Hungary a
year or two since. He was a man of profound learning, of fervent
devotion, of great moderation in his views, of uncompromising
integrity. I visited him in his convent, near Rome, and drank the
juice of the grape grown in his own garden, and pressed by his own
hand.

CHAPTER XLVI.

1844-1876.

Ontario School System.--Retirement of Dr. Ryerson.

Although I hope to be able to prepare a record of the private and
personal history of the founding of our System of Public Education, and
of the vicissitudes through which it passed, as requested by Dr. Ryerson
(page 350), yet in this chapter I give a brief outline of the principles
of that System.

After his educational investigations in Europe, in 1844-1846, Dr.
Ryerson prepared an elaborate Report on a "System of Public Instruction
for Upper Canada," which was published in 1846. In that report he
says:--

By Education, I mean not the mere acquisition of certain arts, or
of certain branches of knowledge, but that instruction and
discipline which qualify and dispose the subjects of it for their
appropriate duties and appointments in life, as Christians, as
persons in business, and also as members of the civil community in
which they live.

A basis of an educational structure adapted to this end should be
as broad as the population of the country; and its loftiest
elevation should equal the highest demands of the learned
professions; adapting its gradation of schools to the wants of the
several classes of the community, and to their respective
employments or professions, the one rising above the other--the one
conducting to the other; yet each complete in itself for the degree
of education it imparts; a character of uniformity, as to
fundamental principles, pervading the whole: the whole based upon
the principles of Christianity, and uniting the combined influence
and support of the government and the people.

The branches of knowledge which it is essential that all should