Democracy and Liberty. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

       Undenominational and united religious teaching in Protestant countries

       The English school board

       Advantages of simple Bible reading

       The American common schools

       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

       And in Ireland

       The English compromise

       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

       CHAPTER 7

       Sunday Legislation

       Sunday not the Sabbath

       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

       Cranmer and Elizabeth

       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 ‘Book of Sports’

       Triumph of Puritanism

       The Elizabethan Sunday not revived at the Restoration

       Observance of Sunday in the eighteenth century

       Effect of the Evangelical movement

       It has now spent its force

       Restriction of Sunday labour passing from a theological to a utilitarian foundation

       Tendency to enforce it by law and custom on the Continent

       Advantages of the Sunday rest

       Suppression of Sunday amusements—The Puritan Sunday

       Its gradual mitigation in England—Sunday opening of museums, &c

       State of public opinion on the subject

       Sunday opening of theatres

       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

       Their doctrines correspond