The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

HIS SPEECH IN THE ASSEMBLY.
fLondon Talbot, Dec. la.h.l


[ fLondon Tablet, Dec. feth.i
The first great debate in the National
Assembly was on the subject of the Ma
tional Universities. Mgr. Dupanloup, with
| characteristic eloqueDce, rose to the height
of the occasion. II ia well known that the
first Napoleon was thoroughly despotic on
education that no functonary in France,
whether ecclesiastical or lay, could open
| any character of seminary without the
permission of the State. While, under
| Napoleon ILL.,, M. Duruy, the Minister of
Education, was so absolutely schoolmaster
of France, that he knew the sabjects which
were being at any time taught in every
school in the country. Education was a
monopoly of the State. One disadvantage
of this system was the poverty of the
colleges for it was impossible for the State
to adequately endow every institution of
an educational character. From one to
three hundred year is the average pay
ment now given to the most competent of
professors in the colleges. In the debate
last week M. Jules Simon affirmed that,
during the year 1s72-which, however,
amount which the State paid for higher
education was under three thousand
pounds. 1t might be almost as we'll to
grant nothing. The two principal advo-
Gates. on either side of the question, were
NJ. Bert and the Bishop Of Orleans. M.
he insisted that education should be free,
he was anxious to protect it from what he
considered great danger-the encroach-
ments of the Catholic Church. He would
leave Professors the liberty of teaching
their own doctrines on the subject Of
science should trammel the science of free
thinking. Mgr. Dupanloup, in reply to NJ.
Bert, took the ground that education
should be free; for this reason, among
others, that the zeal of the Church was far
richer than the goodwill of the State.
different thing to that which was proposed
by M. Bert. Professors should teach only
demonstrated truth. The State should
have no further supervision than to forbid
anti Catholic doctrine. We all know the
devotion of the Bishop to a strictly
| membership in the French Academy rather
than sit with NJ. Littre. His speech last
week was answered by many members !;
among others by M. Challemei- Lacour,
| who professed sympathy with those revolu-
| tiOnary States which were warning against
the influence of the Pope. But the As
sembly was not much impressed by the
arguments of M. Challemel, nor by those of
his skeptical friends and passed the bill
in favor of "freedom" by majority of
| four to one.
| London Register, Dec. I2thI
Monseigneur Dnnanloup, the good and
great Bishop of Orleans, fresh from his de.
nunciation of the Italian Spectators OF
Holy Church, assembled the Tribune the
other day in the National Assembly at
Versailles, and, in a speech worthy of him
self and of the occasion, vindicated the
glory of Catholicism as the foster mother
of all sciences, while, in the matter o.
Higher Education, he denounced in words
of burning eloquence, the lawless course
pursued in regard to that great cause o
Higher Education by the insensate geniu
of the Revolution. Facts are, proverbially y
stubborn things. And there was one fac
mentioned by the Bishop OF Orleans, il
the sitting of yesterday se'nnight at Yer
sailles that was, in it's overwhelming force
beyond any amount of rhetorical argu
ment. Before the advent of the Revolution
, the Holy Catholic Church had established
, in grand array, no less than twenty -thre
Universities. Since the outburst of tn
Revolution, in 1889, all those twenty thre
Universities, without exception, had beel
, swept out of existence. Besides the Uni
; versities there was SCHOOLS ;!.uumerable
and all those schools had, likewise, van
ished. 1t is idle to deny what we hav
called, with reason, tn, overwhelmin
force of those two historical, and absolu
} tely undeniahle, assertions. 1t is said tina
Monsigneur Dupanloup's speech of the At
instant amounted solely and simply to this
panegyric of the medieval Church, O
r Catholicism in the Ages of Faith, an
) coupled with that, in startling contrast,
, series of crushing indictments against tn
Revolution. 1t was simply impossible tha
he could have spoken otherwise. Hav
ing so spoken, he can say, with Who'll
heart and unreproachful conscience, Liber
, ari AMMAN mean. He has just done th
!, like, ms all Christendom knows, and crate
, fully remembers, in regard to the grea
, question between the Holy See and it
Spoilers So long as his life lasts he wi
do so in vindication of all truth and justice
. and in open and resolute denunciation c
all oppressors.
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