Unsectarian, as contrasted with denominational education, in relation to the Queen's University in Ireland / by Henry Mac Cormac.

  • Henry MacCormac
Date:
1866
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Credit: Unsectarian, as contrasted with denominational education, in relation to the Queen's University in Ireland / by Henry Mac Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    public lectures. In October, 1865, they disposed of a por- tion of their holding to advantage, whereupon Dr, Dorrian proposed that the profits should be applied to ecclesiastic uses. Being defeated, however, in this, his next step was to tender Certain ultimatums which should subject the a,rticles of the association, the management of the library, lecture hall, and newsroom, the books and papers taken in, also the persons who might be invited to lecture, to his unconditional eoutrof. “And should these conditions,” added Dr. Dorrian, “ not be made the basis of the Insti- tute, I shall consider it my duty to debar from sacraments everyone who may become a member or aid in its constniction. Comment were superfluous. The Institute remains closed. “The mixed system of education,” observes Dr. Mac Hale in his Lenten Pastoral, 16th February, 1866, “ has been repeatedly condemned, by the highest author- ities of our Church. Thirtyfour years have now passed over since the introduction of a measure dangerous alike to religion and the social interests of the country.” “We have interdicted master or mistress from going to the central model school, and ordered the children to be withdrawn. And, in order to put a stop to such discreditable schemes, the sacraments are to be refused to any parents who consent to send their children to interdicted schools” Should the charter of affiliation, now so eagerly clutched at by the Ultramontane clergy be granted, it will be very easy to predict, in respect of the freedom of education, as well as her intellectual and moral advancement, what must prove the future of Ireland. .u-. . 'i' ,8<i i
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