ian culture. For this reason we have
withstood every attempt to force _secularism_ on this country and we
shall resist it to the last. We have equally withstood _mixed
education_, which, false as it is in itself and pernicious, is in this
country a specious pretext for Protestant educational ascendancy."
(University education in Ireland.)

If such is the case with Catholic Ireland, what should we not conclude as
regards our Western Provinces? Here, more than anywhere else in Canada,
does the Church need staunch, genuine, Catholic leadership. In it the
future of Catholicity beyond the Great Lakes is involved. Reason and
experience prove that the training which makes for genuine Catholic
influence is plainly out of question unless it be received in a college
and university whose atmosphere, teachings, aspirations and ideals are
thoroughly Catholic. The recent foundations of a Catholic University in
Milan and in Nimeguen, Holland, justify this claim.

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Conditions existing in our modern neutral universities vindicate our
stand and strengthen our position. The tendency in these universities
is, without doubt, towards infidelity or to say the least, towards
diluted Christianity.--"The transformation from the old denominational
education to the new undenominational education was in point of
fact due to an antitheological--and even in some of its
manifestations--anti-religious movement. If it included a sense of the
justice of equal treatment for all creeds and a sense of the liberty
necessary for science, it also included some of the anti-Christian spirit
of Continental liberalism. The undenominational movement was the
practical expression of the liberal and scientific movement." (Life of
Newman--L 306.)

A few years ago there appeared in the "Cosmopolitan Review," under the
glaring title "Blasting at the Rock of Ages," an article which startled
the intellectual world. It was a crude and biting exposure of the
intellectual license and unhealthy moral atmosphere of the great American
universities. To follow the author of this powerful indictment in the
proof of his facts and statements would be beyond the scope of this
paper. Only we would advise some of our near-sighted Catholics who
through that snobbishness which money often gives them, have a sort of
worship for non-Catholic universities, to read this indictment. In
giving them a glance of the "inside of the cup" i