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JESUIT WAR AGAINST EDUCATION. 503gating communism. These persons forget that under therigorous censorship of Germany nothing flourished so muchas an atheistic pantheism. Occasion is taken on the sameground to molest colporteurs in their distribution of tractsand Bibles,* especially in France, where this work is mostlycarried on.The Jesuits are making prodigious efforts in all the countriesof Europe to get into their hands the education of theyouth. In Ireland, the Synod of Thurles condemned thegovernment colleges, and prohibited the Romanist youthfrom attending them, because their chairs were not filledsolely with Romanists.This Synod, which enacted, in effect,that darkness is better than light, and that the light oughtto be put under anathema all over Ireland, and all over theworld if possible, was fittingly presided over by a man whobelieves that the Pope is infallible, and that the earth standsstill.In France a bill was introduced into the Assembly bythe Jesuit Minister M. Falloux, and passed, giving to theprefects the power of dismissing the departmental schoolmasters.So early as April 1850, not fewer than four thousandschoolmasters, suspected of a leaning to Protestantism or tocommunism, had been dismissed, on the complaint of theparish cure. These discussions on education brought tolight the existence of a feeling in favour of a spiritual ormental tyranny in quarters where it was least suspected.We allude to INIM. Thiers, De Tocqueville, and others. Nosooner did the Jesuits regain their ascendancy at Naplesthan they commenced their war against education. Bya decree of the 27th of October 1849, whoever is engagedin public or private instruction must appear before* Amusing mistakes sometimes occur. In Aj)ril 1850, a gendannestopped a colporteur, examined his pack of New Testaments, and liappencdto light on Rev. xxii. 15, which he took for a picture of theChurch of Home. He took the colporteur before a magistrate ; but thecolporteur was set at liberty, owing to a priest, who happened to bepresent, declaring the gendarme's interpretation of the passage to be amistake.