Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Other measures against polygamy
Conflicting opinions about their success
Influences within Mormonism hostile to polygamy
Polygamy abandoned by the Mormons
Anglo-Saxon democracy favourable to religious liberty
The sentiment of nationality sometimes hostile to it
Catholicism and Democracy—Ireland
Growth of priestly influence in Irish politics
Historical causes that have contributed to it
Palmerston and Clarendon on the conduct of the priests in 1847
Character of priestly influence in Ireland—Complicity with crime
Perversion of Irish Catholic opinion
Recent legislation favourable to priestly influence
Continental Catholicism
Causes that have favoured the Ultramontane spirit
Disendowment and loss of temporal dignities strengthen sacerdotalism
Increased dependence of the priest on the bishop
Growth of Catholic enthusiasm—Pilgrimages, &c
Centralisation of Catholicism—Triumph of Ultramontanism
Which has made it more fit to act on democracies
Continued intolerance of the Church
It constitutes a State within a State—Its claims and powers
The general current not in the direction of priestly power
Illustrations from Rome, Brazil, and France
Conflicts with the lay power produced by the declaration of infallibility
Serious persecution of Catholics
Enters into alliance with the Pope
France—The battle of education: Its early phases
Educational policy of Napoleon I
Popular education passes mainly into the hands of the religious orders
Challemel-Lacour on the danger of priestly education
Recent French Ultramontanism—Veuillot
The Catholic party conspire against the Republic, May 1877
Defeated at the elections—Anti-Clerical reaction
The Supreme Council of Education remodelled
Law expelling Jesuits, &c., from the schools
Rejected by the Senate—The Ferry decrees
Violent measures that followed
Partial relaxation of the laws against unauthorised corporations
Tests of competence—Public schools made gratuitous and secular
Laws of 1881 and 1882
Primary education made obligatory