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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. 1916 Excerpt: ...as 1410, it was decided in the Court of Common Pleas that the Common Law of the Realm declined to intervene. And yet, for three centuries after this date, as Mr de Montmorency says ' the Church amid its marvellous vicissitudes never relaxed its hold on the control of the teaching of youth and treated as dead or nonexistent the sleeping though living doctrine of the Common Law.' For, when the Church, in England, changed its views from Romanism to Protestantism, and the headship of the Church passed from the Pope to the King, the continuity of its claim to control education was unaffected. In some degree, indeed, it seemed desirable to tighten its grip. For with a new set of doctrines to maintain, grounded on a historical book, the Bible, the work of education received a new impetus. Personal salvation, in a sense, depended, indirectly at least, on the power of reading, which thus became a necessity of education for religion's sake, and if we may add that some degree of power of interpretation was also necessary as part of the demand for the exercise of private judgment, a trained educated mind was also, inferentially, essential. But still more urgent was the argument that for Protestants to hold their own in discussion with Catholics, the concept of education must be deepened in intension and widened in extension to a degree, hitherto unnecessary, in ages of accepted uniformity of creed. It is true that the Lollards had endeavoured to extend and to improve education, for this very reason, but they had been suppressed, and the uniformity upon which the Catholics had insisted in the 15th century, the Protestants endeavoured in their turn to get by suppression of Catholic education, and at the same time to secure improvement in that of their own children. With ...

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