Excerpt from Shall Our Common School Be Destroyed?: An Argument Against Perverting the School-Fund to Sectarian Uses An impartial system of public education should be free from any religious bias. That it should be free from any sectarian bias, all parties will agree. N o denomination of Christians would consent that the tenets of another denomination should be adopted as a basis of religious instruction in the public school. So long as there is no objection from any quarter to the simple reading of the Bible without note ...
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Excerpt from Shall Our Common School Be Destroyed?: An Argument Against Perverting the School-Fund to Sectarian Uses An impartial system of public education should be free from any religious bias. That it should be free from any sectarian bias, all parties will agree. N o denomination of Christians would consent that the tenets of another denomination should be adopted as a basis of religious instruction in the public school. So long as there is no objection from any quarter to the simple reading of the Bible without note or com ment, as a school exercise, it is desirable that it should be read but if Roman Catholic, Jew, or unbeliever objects to the reading of the Bible in the public school, because in his opinion, the Bible itself is a sec tarian book, then Protestant believers have no right to insist upon its being read because they chance to be in the majority. To do this would be to virtually legislate over the consciences of others whose rights are in all respects equal, and to compel them either to accept for their children a religious teaching which they reject for themselves, or to forego for conscience' sake, all benefit to their own famili es from a system of public instruction for which they are taxed, and in which as citizens they are joint proprietors. It would be like opening at the public expense a fountain for the public benefit, and then insisting that no water should be taken from it, except in pitchers of a certain size and shape, and the product of a certain manufactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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