Better than a 'Dreadnought'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 27, Issue 21, 27 May 1909, Page 822

Better than a ' Dreadnought '

A ' Dreadnought ' is a handy bit of argument when others fail. But (as the Catholic Bishop of Goulburn recently put it) a true religious education is the best foundation for a nation's real strength and greatness, and therefore for its defence. ' The evils of secularism,' said he,< ' were to be found in Prance, which was already on the down-grade, and the opposite effect could be seen in Germany, where four hours every week were devoted to directing the school children in either the Catholic or Lutheran religion. That was the' difference between the two "nations. France was a decaying one, and Germany a rising one, that could afford to build Dreadnoughts as she was doing.'