This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 18 edition. Excerpt: ...wishing to revive the famous quarrel which Pius IX. ended by authority with his Encyclical, Inter Multiplices, dated March 21st, 1853, one cannot forbear acknowledging that very little was done in this order for the opinions dear to Don Bosco; and in that little, perseverance had failed. True, reform was as difficult as desirable. Freedom of instruction does not exist in our country of so-O1illed liberty; everywhere except in England and rea-'gium the State, like a jealous dragon, watches e roacjs of study. In France, we are generally easy, content with personal liberty, forgetting it is but a lure without freedom of system and programme. We have the right to instruct, under the strict superintendence, ideas, and scepticism of the State; and we think ourselves free! Experience, even restricted, and the happy results of Salesian colleges, prove the good of Don Bosco's system. It is not irrational that Leo XIII., in his Encyclical, Immortale Dei, put the faithful on their guard against naturalism and rationalism, which he declared incompatible with integrity of faith. What is substantially good in pagan classics serves as an introduction to Christian classics; the natural beauty of one adds additional lustre to the other; thus intimate adhesion between natural and supernatural law is maintained in young minds, distinct, yet united. On this amalgamation not alone education, but Christianity rests. The explanation of the study of philosophy and theology in Salesian Institutions is better given in an extract from the general rule than in any comment. "Section XII. Studies: I. Priests and all members of the Society who wish to be enrolled in clerical train bands, will apply themselves for two years to the study of philosophy, and for four...

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