Undenominational and united religious teaching in Protestant countries
Advantages of simple Bible reading
Education in the British colonies
The conflict between united secular and denominational systems
Religious result of the school-board system
The struggle for denominational State education in the Netherlands
Not likely to be permanent—Danger to the voluntary schools
Principles on which the Legislature should act—The opinion of parents to be most considered
The English compromise not possible in Catholic countries
Unsuccessful conflict with the Church in Belgium, 1878–84
Secular education stringently enforced in France
Hostility shown to religion—Attempt to de-christianise the nation
Arguments of the supporters of the system
Their violence defeated their ends
Sceptical Frenchmen often support religious education
Anti-Catholic spirit in French legislation
Divinity students and military service
The tension in education diminished—The irreligious spirit diminished
But ecclesiastical interference with politics stringently repressed
Review of the principles at issue
Catholicism likely to ally itself more and more with democracy
The downfall of the temporal power strengthens the tendency
Socialistic sympathies in the Church
Best remedies against undue priestly influence in politics
Sunday Legislation
Its observance in the early Church
Laws of Constantine and Theodosius
Sunday observance in the Middle Ages
The Reformers clearly distinguish it from the Sabbath
Growth of Sabbatarianism at the close of her reign
Strengthened by the prevalent disorders on Sunday
Signs of increasing Sabbatarianism—Dr. Bownd
Conflict between the two parties under James I
Laws suppressing Sunday amusements under Charles I
The Elizabethan Sunday not revived at the Restoration
Observance of Sunday in the eighteenth century
Effect of the Evangelical movement
Restriction of Sunday labour passing from a theological to a utilitarian foundation
Tendency to enforce it by law and custom on the Continent
Suppression of Sunday amusements—The Puritan Sunday
Its gradual mitigation in England—Sunday opening of museums, &c
State of public opinion on the subject
Sabbatarian provisions in the game laws
Wise legislation following opinion is seldom strictly logical
Relations of moral and penal legislation
The province of restrictive laws—Kant, Herbert Spencer, Mill