'Secular v. Religious Education'

New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 7

' Secular v. Religious Education '

His Eminence the Cardinal- Archbishop of Sydney has favored us with the following commendation of the latest publication issued from the office of this paper : ' I have received the brilliant pamphlet on Secular versus Religious Education. It is a most useful and instructive contribution to the educational controversy, and cannot fail to do a deal of good.'

Referring to the same publication in the course of an editorial article in its issue of June 26, the Melbourne Tribune says : 'Itis a remarkable, and, we think, unprecedented, occurrence in the history of Australian journalism for a secular paper to allow the Catholic position in education to be so exhaustively stated in its columns. We can imagine the wild amazement that would greet such an enterprise on this continent. . . We do not need to add that it was effectively and thoroughly stated, and that the book which is the result of the discussion must take a chief place in the literature on the subject: This book is a permanent and valuable asset to the Catholic people, not only of New Zealand, but of Australia, and it aids in the formation of a sound judgment on the question at issue by its clear exposition of principles, its wealth of information, and its mastery of facts. . . We wish this book a wide circulation and a wide reading amongst Catholics, for it will teach the reader that the Catholic position in regard to education is impregnable in logic and in fact.'