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rities of relif^ioD from our schools, you deliver them from beinj; sectarian, and that it is the acm^ of liberality to have no rcbgioii lau(?hl whatever; as if there waa no sectarianism any where but in religion; and as if religion consti^ted only of di»putes< The fooisp the ignorant fools! Religion is the science of obligationn. And an education which should exclude obligations is certainly Morse than nones inasmuch as an untamed savage creature who ia strong, ia worse than one who is weak. GxcJude IBligion fmin the i^chools ! then mu^>t you exch cdfl&tial aspirations from the soul, and heaven- born principles from the life of ntan. And what 0» KUUCATIOII. 621 you to harmonize &Dd con&ociate man with lan? Will self-inicrest cement a state t Yes^ is their prcscot pbilosophy, ttmt the perfcc- tion of &n govenimeat m to leave men to thcio- Bclre*. They are right, ftO far as hi» inter^fttA go. Tlwrc you may leave man lo himself- But what U to bmder him frojn pacing beyond the mark of truth! Doth man oatunilly lovothe riqhu of his Leighbour as ho loveth his own ; and hanng pro- ^eeedcd full nmrcti to the outwurd bound of his owD domain, nill he strip there without &n im- |>ediment? But bia neighbour will watch that lie ipasfi not. And U thii. the Utopia of these philo^opheTS, that erery man must be a watcb* man u^on every other man ; That cQch is to stand harnaAaed agamst all the rest f Yes, truly this ia the )>erfcction of their system, Hiat each man should be on the wateh against every other man. And where then U love, friendship, fellowship, fraternity; where is hospitalJiy, generosity, mag- nanimity, and disinterestedness; where self-dc- oial, solf-dcrotcducss, and sell-sacrifice? 'Oh,' tbey answer, ' these are fine things to talk about, ttiingftth^it have been wriUenof; but whether tliey ever existed, or not, is a different qncstton : that they exist not at pre^eut, is a matter certain/ X do admire, and am amasxd of what sires we of this age were begotleik, and what mothers nursed us upon their kiiLH*s, that we should htive lost the ancient temper of the^e islanders, who, from the first initight they got into the Chriiitiaii faitli, have held il dear, and always bore it before them in the government and legislation of the land; to adhere to which was regarded as the mark of a liberal mind, and to deliver it from thraldom the 922 ox EDUCATIOV. [. hiijhe^t achievem^m of » gallant wwil; — wl si&gle bisbopft in the darkest ag€«, as old Greai head, had the boldDC6« lo tear a Pope's btill, an' trample it