Public School Education. Michael Müller
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Michael Müller
Public School Education
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066160869
Table of Contents
EDUCATION—ITS OBJECT AND NECESSITY.
ORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
EXPOSE OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ON THE MALE PORTION OF SOCIETY.
EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ON THE FEMALE PORTION OF SOCIETY.
EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM CONTINUED.
THE STATE.—ITS USURPATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.—ITS INCOMPETENCY TO EDUCATE.
THE STATE A ROBBER.—VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND COMMON LAW.
REMEDY FOR THE DIABOLICAL SPIRIT AND THE CRIMES IN OUR COUNTRY.
THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEM ALONE SATISFIES THE WANTS OF ALL, AND CAN SAVE THE REPUBLIC.
THE CATHOLIC PRIEST ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
The Irish Bishops again expressed the like sentiments in 1826.
"ADDRESS OF THE PLENARY SYNOD OF BALTIMORE, UNITED STATES.
ZEAL OF THE PRIEST FOR THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN.
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DEVOTIONAL, INSTRUCTIVE, &c.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
American fellow-citizens—America is my home! I have no other country. After my God and my religion, my country is the dearest object of my life! I love my country as dearly as any one else can. It is this love that makes my heart bleed when I call to mind the actual state of society in our country, and the principles that prevail everywhere. It is indeed but too true that we live in a most anti-Christian age; principles are disregarded, and iniquity is held in veneration. We see nothing but confusion in religion, in government, in the family circle. Sects spring up and swarm like locusts, destroying not only revealed religion, but rejecting even the law of nature. Fraud, theft, and robbery are practised almost as a common trade. The press justifies rebellion, secret societies, and plots for the overthrow of established governments. The civil law, by granting divorce, has broken the family tie. Children are allowed to grow up in ignorance of true religious principles, and thereby become regardless of their parents. The number of apostates from Christianity is on the increase, at least in the rising generation. Current literature is penetrated with the spirit of licentiousness, from the pretentious quarterly to the arrogant and flippant daily newspaper, and the weekly and monthly publications are mostly heathen or maudlin. They express and inculcate, on the one hand, stoical, cold, and polished pride of mere intellect, or on the other, empty and wretched sentimentality. Some employ the skill of the engraver to caricature the institutions and offices of the Christian religion, and others to exhibit the grossest forms of vice, and the most distressing scenes of crime and suffering. The illustrated press has become to us what the amphitheatre was to the Romans when men were slain, women were outraged, and Christians