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Strange indeed if we were East The High School Act. secular." in accord with such a system of educa- temples of Mylitta and of Astarte, and to the desires of their heart, unto untion What think you would St. the groves of Daphne, were evidences cleanness, to dishonour their own bodies prince of the Apostles, and of this sanction. The religion of Greece among themselves Peter, the Public Infecting. " Who changed the truth of God into St. John, the beloved disciple say if was equally immoral. At Corinth there sanctioned
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A public meeting of Catholics, and confroited with this Act ? Just what was a temple of Venus, containing a lie : and worshipped and served the who acted as creature rather than the Creator, who others interested, was held in the Catho- they answered the Council of the Jews thousand degraded fbmales, the is blessed for ever. Amen. lic Boys' School House on Friday even- when " they charged them not to speak priestesses ; public prostitution was The " For this cause God delivered them ing, the 15th inst., for the purpose of at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus. worship paid to the goddess. adopting a memorial to the Secretary But Peter and John answering said to Kotytia,-nocturnal festivals instituted up to shameful affections. For their imwomen have changed the natural use of State for the Colonies, praying that them : If it be just in the sight of God to in honor of Kotys, the goddess of with the most into that use which is against nature, he may advise Her Majesty to disallow hear you rather than God judge ye." purity,-were polluted " And in like manner the men also, the " High School Act, 1876." There (Acts iv.) (Applause.) Secular edu- licentious practices and debaucheries. was a numerous attendance, not only of cation is not a new idea. It dates far They were celebrated in Thrace, leaving the natural use of the women, Catholics but also of Protestants, the back in the world's history. It reached Corinth, Athens, and in several other have burned in their lusts one towards fair sex being largely represented. On a degree of polish which has never parts of Greece. There were no feasts another, men with men working that of which is filthy, and receiving in themthe motion of Mr. J. T. Reilly, secon- since been surpassed-I had almost more famous in Greece than those ded by Mr. J. A. Lucas, the Very Rev. said equalled-before Christianity was Bacchus, which, especially at Athens selves the recompense which was due M. Gibney, V.G., was called upon to even heard of. The orations of Demos- were celebrated with extraordinary to their error. of preside, in the absence of His Lord- thenes, in Athens, and Cicero in Rome, solemnity : drunkenness formed part " And as they liked not to have God ; god of wine paid to the worship the long as with pleasure as unwill be read was Mr. Lucas Bishop. ship the in their knowledge ; God delivered animously appointed hon. secretary to there are men to read. Homer, Virgil prizes were given to those who could them up to a reprobate sense, to do and Horace have left after them works drink most. The worst species of im- those things which are not convenient. the meeting. The CHAIRMAN said he was pleased which have ever been, as they will ever morality was ordained by law in Crete, with all iniquity " Being filled and happy to occupy the position in continue to be the admiration and the de- Thebes, Elie, and Sparta. The philoso- malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, and defended principles laid down phers which, of their kindness, the meeting light of men. Quintillian in rhetoric, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, had placed him ; but he should have Aristotle in philosophy, Livy in history, institutions which could not be recon- malignity, Detractors whisperers. been even more pleased had he been and Euclid in science, are names that ciled with morality. The divine Plato, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, left still more free, and had the Bishop, will live for ever. (Hear, hear.) " To as Cicero styles him, in his ideal repub- haughty, inventors of evil things, diswho would be the fitting chairman of the Greeks," says Temple, in his Edu lic wished to establish a community obedient to parents. Foolish dissolute, the meeting been able to be present. cation of the World, " we owe the logic of women, and proposed many other without affection, without fiidelity, withHis Lordship, as they were aware, would which has ruled the minds of' all think- things concerning the relation of the out mercy. have been in attendance but for his ill ers ; since all our natural and physical sexes which could not be even decently " Who, having known the justice health. The Very Rev. gentleman science really begins with the Greeks mentioned. The other philosophers not understand that did then proceeded to state the object of the and indeed would have been impossible were, in this regard, even worse than of God who do such things, are worthy meeting, and called upon the hon. secre- had not Greece taught men how to rea- Plato. Free love was consecarted in they, not only they that do tary to read the reply of the Right Hon. son. To the Greeks we owe all modern Athens by the example of Socrates, of death : and also that consent the Secretary of State for the Colonies, literature ; for though there is other Plato, and Zeno ; and Plutarch, who them but they (Rom. ch. i.) that do them." to their memorial praying the disallow- literature even older than the Greek- gives us this piece of information, can- to them But they God. knew ' They ance of the " High School Act, 1875." the Asiatic for instance and the Hebrew, didly confesses He then detailed the efforts made to re- yet we did not learn this lesson from of it himself but indulged in it. So liked not to have God in their knowzonstruct that school under the name them. They had not the genial life common had this free intercourse be- ledge, His wisdom was foolishness with and title of the " High School Act, which was needed to kindle other come at Athens that marriages had them,' and because they put aside the And of altogether ceased, till at length the civil knowledge of Him, He forsook them and 1876," which retained all the objection- nations with their own fire." able features of the former measure, and the Romans we are told by one of the authorities, fearing lest the city should they fell into the enormities described only differed from it by some slight greatest scholars of the day-Newman be depopulated, were compelled to make by St. Paul. that teaching and learning was a marriage compulsory. In Sparta wives modifications of style. He would only Ladies and gentlemen, we have now touch ever so lightly on the practical department of the government ; and were lent and the only thing which law to glance at another feature of the social part of the business of the meeting, but schools were set up and professors en- or custom sought for in the sexes was life-the condition of childhood in would claim their indulgence while he dowed in every great city of the East the production of healthy and vigorous those days and in those countries. brought under review the working and and West. No youth could obtain ad- citi zens. We need not wonder at the First of all, birth itself was denied to the results of secular education in var- mission to the Roman schools without treatment to which woman was subjec- many. Feticide is not indeed unknown ious countries, both in ancier.t and a certificate signed by the magistracy ted in Greece when we consider the in Christian countries, but it is conNext he presented doctrines of the philosophers concerning sidered a crime, and measures are taken modern times. That system of educa- of his province. Pythagoras, who refers every- to prevent it. But the pagans considered tion was, as they were aware, very ob- himself before the Magister Genus-an her. noxious not only to the Catholic com- official who was in the department of thing that exists to the operations of it no crime, it was resorted to, commonly, munity but to everyone who had a the Prefectus Urbis, and who acted as two conflicting principles-good and evil especially by the fish and for the Christian sentiment in his breast. a rector of the Academy. The pupil's -declares woman to be the work of the slightest reasons, oftentimes without evil principle, while man is the work of any reason at all. Aristotle declares In protesting against an unchristian name, age, city, course of studies, and the principle of good. The other philo- that wherever the law prevents the education, they only echoed the voice lodging were noted. He was reminded sophers have been equally hostile to exposing of children, it is necessary to of more than two hundred and forty that the eyes of the world were upon her as an impure limit their numbers by means of abortion. -religionists, scattered him, that he had a character to main- woman ; they consider millions of their co and evil being, a cruel necessity to be He would only allow a certain number over every part of the habitable world, tain, and that it was his duty to avoid borne with for the propagation of the of children in each family. The philoso(Hear, bear.) Although the Secretary clubs, riotous parties, and public shows, human race, but to be despised as of an phers praised and defended it. " We he disgraced If were refractory and of State had not recognised their claim inferior caste, not sharing with man destroy our own children," says Seneca to be heard as scrupulous, conscientious himself he was to be publicly flogged those grand attributes which make him " when they have any physical detect ; Christians or Catholics, his lordship did and shipped off at once to his country. the lord of creation.' nor do we this through anger, but regard their claim to be heard as citi- The professors were under the same in Such was woman's lot through reason ; for there is nothing zens, and they on their part were thank- jurisdiction as the students, and were Plato, of and the country Pericles more reasonable than to remove from ful for being so heard. Continuing sometimes made to feel it." (Office and that of Aristotle and Alexander-in " To the house all useless things." Very Rev. work of Universities). remarks, the his works grandest country by the adorned slay a man " says Quintillian, " is oftenThis system of secular education chairman said-There are no doubt, of sculpture and of architecture, and en- times a crime ; to slay one's own weighty reasons urging the advocates which polished the Greeks and the with the noblest treasures which children is frequently a most beautiful of higher education to secure such a Romans is alleged to be the right course of riched it is in the power of science and art to act." Turn we to another scene, not less follow, order to secure social in And those who study to boon to the colony. confer on a nation. Such was the revolting, which was enacted, to make a advocate it have a right to demand *one happiness, wise legislation and the social state of the polished Greek. Pro- Roman holiday, and in which an educated those who withstand them solid reasons highest honors, while it need not interfessing themselves too wise were they not people took supreme delight. I allude for their opposition. The question oc- fere with our reasonable service of God. fools ? An eye witness, and he an in- to the Gladiatorial shows of the Roman curs : Are we opposed to higher educa- Men often adopt a principle and reLet pudiate its consequences. That you spired one, has given us the following amphitheatre. The Emperor, Senators, tion ? No : emphatically, no description of the social state of Rome, and Roman ladies are seated around. the scheme proposed violate no principle may know the consequences of purely in the days of its boasted knowledge- Above, on the second story, is the of reason or morality, and we will take secular education before you adopt the purely secular mark you : popvlus ; higher still the common our stand by the advocates of higher principle, I will lay before you its re"Because that, when they knew God people. The procession of gladiators sults in those countries in which it has education at once. Why then do we oppose this " High School Act, 1876 ?" had the best field and the fullest play. they have not glorified him as God or enters the arena-poor, simple, barbarWe oppose it because it is unchristian, And first in the countries referred to, given thanks : hut became vain in their ians, captured by Roman legions on (Hear, and in the days when christianity was thoughts, and their foolish heart was some disastrous battle -field ; slaves and unseasonable, and unfair. malefactors, freeborn citizens too, hear,) I am well aware these are unknown. In doing so, we will have darkened. grave charges ; but we believe they to consult Strobe, Aristotle, Plutarch, " For professing themselves to be perhaps knights, priests, or senators, and even women, pass along in the sad are true, and for that reason we are op- Plato, Cicero, Seneca, and a hostof others. wise they became fools. The un- (Consult the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, posed to this High School. " And they changed the glory of the procession round the arena. They are christian character of the education to Feby. 1875.) These authors have unwit- incorruptible God, into the likeness of matched in pairs-their swords are exbe given is predetermined. The Act tingly sketched for us the base de- the image of a corruptible man, and of amined to see if they are sufficiently provides for The education to be gradations of their refined nations. birds and of four -footed beasts and of sharp. A preliminary sham fight takes given at such school to be exclusively 'They tell us that the religion of the creeping things. place with pointless spears or wooden
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