ver attended any place of religious worship_.'"

We cannot better conclude our remarks on the efforts made in France to
destroy religion in the masses by means of education, than in the
following words of warning, not less applicable to good and sincere
Catholics in Ireland nowadays, than to those to whom they were specially
addressed:

"Good and sincere Catholics (continues the author of the
pamphlet already quoted), who, deceived by the motto of the
association, have given their names to this _Educational
League_, take part, without knowing it, in a Masonic
institution, and in building up this new state of society, from
which religion is to be banished. Well may the Bishop of Metz
say: 'These persons forget that, like Proteus in the fable,
Freemasonry knows how to multiply _ad infinitum_ its
transformations and its names. Yesterday it called itself '_Les
Solidaires_,' or 'morality independent of religion,' or
'freedom of thought'; to-day it takes the title of an
'Educational League'; to-morrow it will find some other name by
which to deceive the simple."

The efforts to corrupt the youth of unhappy France by means of bad
education in its higher branches, have been not less energetic and
wide-spread. The lectures of the School of Medicine of Paris were
inaugurated in 1865, amid shouts of "_Materialism forever_,"[D] and on
the thirtieth of December a candidate for degrees was permitted by the
Medical Faculty to advance the following revolutionary doctrine,
grounded on the materialistic principles he had been taught: "Who still
speaks to us of free-will? As the stone which falls to the ground obeys
the laws of weight, man obeys the laws which are proper to him....
Responsibility is the same for all, that is to say, _none_." And again:
"Physicians must not be accomplices of the magistrates and judges, who
punish men for acts for which they are not responsible"--pp. 32, 33.
Here we have a sample of the teaching of the School of Medicine of
Paris, not only the first medical school of France, but among the first
schools of Europe. And this sample is, unfortunately, not a solitary
one. The Medical Faculty of the University of Paris gave medals in 1866
for two dissertations, in one of which we find a denial of the act of
creation and of God the Creator, and a rejection of every metaphysical
idea, _as useless and dangerous_; while human thought is set down as