eing of man.

'On the basis of these general views, I have two remarks to
offer regarding the Government scheme of education.

'1. I should not require a certificate of satisfaction with the
religious progress of the scholars from the managers of the
schools, in order to their receiving the Government aid. Such a
certificate from Unitarians or Catholics implies the direct
sanction or countenance by Government to their respective
creeds, and the responsibility, not of _allowing_, but, more
than this, of _requiring_, that these shall be taught to the
children who attend. A bare allowance is but a general
toleration; but a requirement involves in it all the mischief,
and, I would add, the guilt, of an indiscriminate endowment for
truth and error.

'2. I would suffer parents or natural guardians to select what
parts of the education they wanted for their children. I would
not force arithmetic upon them, if all they wanted was reading
and writing; and as little would I force the Catechism, or any
part of the religious instruction that was given in the school,
if all they wanted was a secular education. That the managers of
the Church of England schools shall have the power to impose
their own Catechism upon the children of Dissenters, and, still
more, to compel their attendance on church, I regard as among
the worst parts of the scheme.

'The above observations, it will be seen, meet any questions
which might be put in regard to the applicability of the scheme
to Scotland, or in regard to the use of the Douay version in
Roman Catholic schools.

'I cannot conclude without expressing my despair of any great or
general good being effected in the way of Christianizing our
population, but through the medium of a Government themselves
Christian, and endowing the true religion, which I hold to be
their imperative duty, not because it is the religion of the
many, but because it is true.

'The scheme on which I have now ventured to offer these
few observations I should like to be adopted, not because
it is absolutely the best, but only the best in existing
circumstances.

'The endowment of the Catholic religion by the State I should
deprecate, as being ruinous to the country in all its interests.
Still I do not look for the general Christianity of the people,
but through the medium of the Christianity of their rulers. This
is a lesson taug