Facts and Fallacies Relative to Scottish Churches and Schools, 12 Tracts by 'free Lance'. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... TRACT TWELFTH. Srofiisjr ftaiional dBinnaiiott. Scottish Education Bills--English Ecclesiastical Sects--Alleged Religions Difficulty--Voluntaries--Secularists--School Morality--Falsehood and Profane Swearing--Sir Daniel Sandford and the Rev. Henry Renton, M.A.--Bishop Newman and Archbishop Whately quoted--Testimony of Mr Andrew Young and Mr Edmund Boyd--Lord Advocate Young's Experience--Edinburgh Secularists--Privy Council and Education--Condemned by a Committee of the House of Commons--Mr Lingen and "My Lords"--School Inspectors--Opinions of Scottish Members of Parliament--Qualifications of Scottish Schoolmasters--Pretensions and Defects of Normal Training Colleges--Remuneration of Schoolmasters--Professor Kelland quoted. I Have deemed it expedient to address this Tract to the Right Honourable George Young, Lord Advocate for Scotland. As the holder of that important office, he has undertaken to frame, and, if possible, carry through Parliament, a Bill for the settlement of the National Education question. Mr Young has been till very recently so much engaged in his extensive forensic practice, that he cannot have devoted much attention to those ecclesiastical differences with which Scottish National Education has been so inextricably involved. He has repeatedly avowed his desire to consider with particular attention any representations embodying relevant facts; and it is surely fair to assume that he will listen with equal candour to sound arguments. Few men at the Bar or in Parliament display more acuteness in detecting and refuting fallacies. He has not forgotten that during the last sixteen years six efforts made by the Lord Advocate Moncreiff to carry Education Bills ended in failure. The retrospect is not pleasant, yet it may be turned to good accoun...

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