The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-07-31

.,,,,v.pins articles Of the Church CT Ess!sad
tns IL -. however, who care less for them than
il1. lars and brandy and water, are made TO
" -, the impious act Of thus swearing TO them
''Dl. "a obtain the English citizens right TO
ID J na;,srsity education. How can any one re-
degree at Cambridge unless he does like
go go So the test forces men to become hyPO-
-, and liars there also 10 the Scotch uniVer-
'i,s No one is permitted to occupy professors
H". :, letters not however remote from theolo-
'n'- ,s he the subject of his teaching, unless he
-i,.s 70 the creed Of the Free thus on COM
.,.ion, Church of Scotland. There can De no
P, se for the perpetustiOn Of such illiberai dis
lritss in this age, certainly all in America
m resdilv admit. There must be small chance
va, .-..,lactual freedom where the chief or most
,~,ortspt fountains Of learning continue 10 DC
-!..,od with the rstsbsne Of intolerance.
FIDYI ocke once told EDgland's Dutch King
,.,,'. that II he failed to reform the universe
50. everything would go back again. Or IN
w, words he prophesied that they would grad
IN, ,suse under the entire control OF the
In.ohss William failed to heed his warning
y, s.oro that day to this they have been too
mo for England's MOnarchs, even II disposed
.1--s,rro their abuses which are Of comparative
!, rscsut origin. James ], not more bigot than
-, srst authorised the church to apply her
to.t. IN these seats Of learning, none being pre-
viousIv permitted or required Indeed, BLACK
.tora EXPRESSLY lays it down that call these cor
roratons are, strictly speaking, lay, not ecclesi
astical. even though composed sometimes OF 60
clesiastical persons only" In the times of Eliza
beth the tests were not required. This TACT be-
ing notorious, it follows that they are Innovations
far the benefit of the interest which denouncet
innovations by and for all others with most IN
releptipg bitterness But the two churches fol
whose benefit these tests were smuggied on Eng
,,rd,s statute books are themselves but innova-
tops. being far younger than POpery, which, in
,nrp. is Younger than Christianity. There never
WAS closer copy of the intolerance Of the princi'
r,s Of Popery than these same tests; though, SC
far as her acts of learning are concerned, Popery
IN the Continent is far more liberal than Episco-
raliapism in England and Presbyterisnism in
scotland. Padua, it will be recOllected, made an
D Of Harvey for his discovery of the circula-
ton of the blood Andrew Balfour, the great
S...'qlS. 14scian Of the 18th century, took bis
degrees at Caen Dr. Bowring and hundreds Of
o,ber living British -'"b'5'jeS Of Law and medir
cine graduated in universities under POpish gov
eminent while the Paris schools of all sorts are
yearly turning out hundreds, il not Thousands,
of all nations and creeds. Yet in 1881, in re-
forming, liberal, and progressive Englsnd, learn
ing still ducks her head to the mitre, and even to
the geneva cloak aud must bear the mark Of the
beast ecclesiastical before 1t can show itself in
public and must say it's catechisms correctly to
the letter if it would dream Of seating itself in
the professors chair.