The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-06-25
ilornIng Star and Catholic Mess snger.
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NEW oRLEANs, SUNDAY. JUNE rs 1870.
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not worth having. II to read, write, cyphel
or sing be education, the Prussian SUBJECT II
"If to reason, Judge and act rs an indie
pafSdept free agent in the religious moral and
social Eelations of man to his Creator and to ms
fellow men, be the exercise of mental powers
which alone deserves the name OF education,
then is the Prussian subject mere drum boy
in the cultivation and use Of all that regards
the moral and intellectual epdowments OF man,
compared 10 one Of tho nnCultured population
Of free country"
am now combating the idea that true
civilization 10 dependent solely on the diffusion
of intelligence; by no means underrate the
value of education as an element of social and
moral progress, and the Cath Ollie Church has at
and established institutions of learning, and
Icscumepical .councils have commanded the
clergy. to establish parochial schools for the
free education OF the poor. Catholic countries
compare favorably with others in their efforts
TO promote the edaeationsof the people:
The school attendance compared with the
: as1 to 104. In Catholic Switzerland as to 10,
in England as / to IL, in Bavaria as tot.
Austria, Bavaria, Belgium and Ireland have
than England England and Wales, with a
population of 22.712 600, had Q school popnla-
tion of s.s74.7Oo, of whom only half were
suficient regularity to bring grants to their
schools. ireland, with population of 5 All ais.
had ON register 1,O06 546, or nearly half as
many as England and Wales, though her popu-
lation is not o fourth of that of these two
countries.
DR.. Laing, speaking of Rome as it was under
the Popes, Gays: The statistical fact that
Rome has above q hundred schools more than
Berlin for population little more than bali
that of Berlin, puts to flight q world of humbug
about 81 stems OF national education. carried on
by govern ments and their moral effects on So
ciety. In Catholic Germany, in France, Italy,
and even Spain, the education of the common
people in reading. writing, arithmetic. music,
manners and morals, Is at least as generally
diffased and as faithfully promoted by the
Church body as in Scotland.
at is by their own advance, and not by
keeping back the advance of the people, the
Pspist priesthood of the present day seek to
keep ahead of the intellectual progress of the
community in Catholic lands and they might
perhaps retort to our Presby terian clergy, and
head of the intellectual movements of the age.
Education is in reality not only not repressed,
but is en- couraged by the Popish Church, and 10
used"
If morality be the criterion of true civilizs-
ton, it cannot be said that those countries in
which the Catholic religion has prevailed will
suffer by comparison with non. Catholic nations. |
The Journals of the Statistical Society of
London for the years 1860 1862, 1865 aud 1867
give the number of iAeAitimate births in the |
hundred as follows:
s 1923 to 1887. Kngdon of ssrdnja FL; 1s5o,
"a; 1858 France, rs; 1851, Austria, 8; 1865 u,
Ireland, ) g.
Non-Catholic oountries-1e59 Eogland and
Wales. 6 5 +; 1855. Norway, 90; 1858, non Cath
Hanover. 90: 1866. Scotland, 10 l 1855, Dem
mark, IL 5; 1888 to 1el7, Iceland. Ii 1858.
Saxony, 16; 1857, Wurtemburg, 16
In Holland and Switzerland, where nearly |
iak the population 10 Catholic the proportion |
is as.follows: 1859, Holland, 4. ; Switzerland, |
six.
than any nom Catholic country except England
and Wales but England and Wales are below |
other countries and far below Ireland.
In Scotland the number Of illegitimate births
in proportion to the population, is three times |
greater thpn in 1relands and in England and
Watss there are twice as many, and in nom
lScEEolc Pruseia the percentage is q third
greater than in Catholic Prussia. Lecky, in
speaking OF ireland, seems to complain of the
chastity of it's people. Had the Irish peassnts
been less chaste," he says, "they would have
famine which, in the present century desolated
the land, fallen upon q people who thought
more of accommodating subsistence than OF
avoiding sin, multitudes might now be living
who persisted by literal starvation on the
dreary hills of Limerick and Shibbereen."
There is not in all Europe a more thoroughly
nti.Catholic country than Sweden.
In 1883 Mr.. Laing visited Sweden, ana he
declares that its people, although almost on
tirey rural, are at the very bottom Of the scale
of European morality.
infants and sick all included had been accused
of crime, and one ont of every 134 convicted
and punished. In 1888 there were born in
Stockholm 2 ia children, of whom ST. were
81 legitimate and l,l37 illeGitimato,
Drunkenness was more common there than
in any other country in the world. Nearly
100000 gallons of liquor were consumed in
1850, by population of only 100000, which
gives thirteen gallons of Intoxicating drink t"
every man, woman and child in the Kingdom
- Compare the Swedish people with the pastoral
population Of Catholic Switzerland and the
Tyrol.
Allison, 10 speaking of the Tyrolese, was
forced 20 admit that the Catholic religion "yet
preserved enough of the pure spirit of it's
divine origin to influence in u great measure
the conduct of their private lives"
In Scotland illegitimaoy is more common 10
the country than in the towns aud cities !;
in England, also, it is more prevalent in the
rural districts than in the cities; whereas. in
France, it is just the reverse. 10 the country
districts of England we have the following
rate:
Nottingham, 50; York North Riding, 8 g;