al
education you propose is the suppression of the human heart, of the
human conscience.

'This "clericalism" which you declare to be the enemy, and which, when
you are pushed to the wall, turns out to be Christianity--this
"clericalism" which you attack and mean to exterminate, tell me, is this
the power which lays your Ministers prostrate before your Deputies, and
your Deputies prostrate before their electors? Is it "clericalism" which
is stirring up Labour against Capital? Is it "clericalism" which
preaches and supports "strikes"? Is it "clericalism" which manufactures
dynamite and blows up houses? Is it "clericalism" which is transforming
your literature into ribaldry and your theatres into brothels? Is it
"clericalism" which shuts up your schools? Is it "clericalism" which
transforms all the actions and relations of life into matters of
contract and of calculation? Do you imagine that Christianity, if it be
your enemy, is an enemy as terrible as Nihilism? And what other end but
Nihilism can there be of your "neutral" obligatory schools and your
atheistic laws? Already you go in fear of the very phrase which
recognises the duties of man to God! You think it dangerous, you think
it equivocal! You do not know that when you recoil before the name of
God you abandon the traditions of France!

'Nay, you will not even hear now of man's duties to his country! This is
another "dangerous," another "equivocal" phrase! You talk now in your
programmes about the "civic duties" of man, for when these are taught
there will be no danger of confounding the Monarchical France before
1789, which we must learn to hate, with the Republican France which we
must love and admire!'

Thus spoke Jules Simon in 1882.

The 'civic duties' of man brought France in 1792 to the 'Law of
Suspects,' to the headlong and brutal demolition of the whole social
edifice, to confiscation, and to the guillotine.

To what will the 'civic duties' of man bring France, and, with France,
the civilization of Christendom, in 1892?

[Illustration: France]

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