Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-29
EDUCATION IN FRANCE.

/ We get from Prof. Adams sreeent work
( on Democracy and Monarchy IN France
! some very interesting facts with regard
| to the condition Of Education in that
country for the last century. At the in
/ ception OF the great revolution France
had population of p 100000. The col
! leges and schools in the country, in
1 which the classics were taught, num-
/ bered 566, with an attendance of 72. 747
/ pupils. During the revolution Te0iDle
/ these institutions were all swept away,
/ the professors were dispersed, and the
/ property sold. A few private schools
/ were afterwaTd established; but, for more
I than forty years before Louis Philippe
assembled the throne, the great mass OF
I French people had no means of educa-
ton whatever. During the eighteen
years OF GuiZOt's administration, edu-
cational privileges experience great in
crease; yet, IN lS4S, with q population
of 36,010,OOO, there were only 69.34I
pupils ia the high schools of France, In
other words the proportion OF the pupils
in these schools WAS IN every 5l9 Of the
inhabitants; while in 1859, at the out
break Of the revolution, the proportion
had been l in every 343. In his work
on the PTOgreSSiCe Situation iR France
iI} 1927, Baron Oupin states that, of the
$4,000 cOmnunes OF townships OF
France, 1900 were entirely without
schools, In connection with this fact he
says: France will have to put forth the
sroatest efforts to raiso herself, by means
OF elementary instruction, to the simple
level OF those people whom we have
been IN the habit Of regarding as ignor-
ant. 1 say boldly that, in this respect,
We are below the Irish and the Austri-
fFfafe rar 50 I H.
able in the south, which is far less adj
vanced than the north. In
1877, France with a population
Of some 1000, 600, had in her
primary schools only S56.7I2
scholars; and, In 1920, the number had
only increased TO ], ll6,777.
Forty yesrs ago 100000 Of French
knew how to read; to day the number
has been increased to -, 900, OO0.n From
this we learn that, in 1926, out Of pop
ulatiOn Of 81 100000, only Il, 00O, 900 of |
the French could read. The report of |
the French minister Of public instruc- |
ton for 1865 Shows that, of the con-
scripts drafted in 1864, 80 to A per cent. |
could neither read nor write. In 1872
VI. Tame states in his work on uni
versal Suffrage" in all France, OF every
100 male inhabitants, SO can neither |
read nor write; and he adds that the ig- |
norance AMI intellectual apathy Of the |
French peasantry are INDISPENSABLE. |
Hamerton confirms this testimony. In |
mis- ''Intelleetual Life'' he remarks of the |
French pesssntry: "They read nothing, |
they learn nothing, think Of nothingbut |
money and the satisfaction Of their appe-
tites. Their Ignorance passes belief, and |
is accompanied with absolute satisfac-
ffAr M flnDar,
country is sinking deeper and deeper in
TO vulgarity, forgetting its past and its
noble enthusiasts. The end
Of the bourgeois commences, says Flau-
bert, since it is coming to entertain the
sentiments of the populace. | do not |
see that IL reads other journals, that it
regales itself with other music, or that |
its pleasures are more elevated. With
both classes there is the same love of
money, the same respect for accom-
plished facts, the same necessity for idols
in order 20 destroy them, the same ha-
tired Of all superiority, the same spirit of
disparagement, the same class Of igno-
rance. Joined TO the above EXPOSE
ton of the Ignorance of the lower classes
Of France, the following facts, which we
convey in the language of Professor
Adams, assume an increased siguifica-
ton: - In lS4s, there were in Paris l.
100000 inhabitants, of whom more than
One-third had been born out Of wedloek.
To be exact, the population, according to
the census, was 100 Legitimate to every
lS5 legitimate. In Paris, then, there
were, when the revolution Of lS4S broke
out, $500 people Of Legitimate birth.
since the great revolution, every third
child in Paris received its first lessons of
life in q foundling-hospital.
The elgdnt troUge, when grown up, be-
comes the gGDliJl de Paris, whose pecu-
lisI nature is so graphically described by
Victor Hugo in Les AiserdbleS; and the
gGnlia, when still further deveIoped. is
the proper tenor Of any true civilization. |
de has generally, the rudiments of an
ducatOn-enOugh to enable him TO |
read the worst literatre-that is TO saw.
enough TO enable him to imbibe tempta- !
ton in every form, without enabling |
him to combat it, His parents are un-
known to him, and his offspring are as |
strange to him as his parents; for they,
As their father had been before them, are
sent TO the foundling-hOspital.
THE high Anglicans and Ritualists of
have been placing themselves
u q terrible dilemma, according to the
ftrN Mat Gazette. There is q mysteri-
,us person in England, one of a dozen,
Who claims TO be the "Patrisch Of Anti :
,ch,n and to this high Oriental digni- {
aiy the high Anglicans and Ritualists s
lave been fiocking to receive his bene- !
LECTION. The writer reminds them that
he nineteenth article of the English S
hurch sets forth that the "Churches of
erusaleB, Alexandra and Antioch i
ave erred, and that this high-priest 1
nay not have properly purged himself. {
Iut worse than this, he shows that the I
IIl dozen "Patriarchs Of Antioch have I
sndered themselves still more objection t
bic, for they have entertained erroneous
pinions regarding the procession Of the c
bird person Of the Trinity, and that C
icy are habltually consigned to perdi- a
on thirteen times year ia the Atha- &
asian creed by the very persons who G
re seeking the benediction OF this par Il
cular patriarch, S,