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    hr religious , the Napoleon-decree , for the constitution of an Imperial university , as it appears in the AthentEum of this month . —The fundamental principle Of this decree is , ** that public

    instruction , throughout the empire , is confided exclusively to the university ; that no school or establishment for instruction of any kind , can be formed apart from it , or without the authorization of its head ; that no one can open a school , or teach publicly ,

    without being a member and graduate of it . " This even goes down so low , as tc the little primary schools , in which children are taught to read , write , and cast accounts . "— -The basis of instruction , in all these schools , ( with two exceptions as to the first articles ) are , " the precepts of , the Catholic religion ; Jidelity to the Emperor , and the napoleon dynasty ; obedience to

    the statutes relative to teaching the object of which is uniformity of instruction ) tending to form for the state citizens attached to their religion , their prince , their country , and their family . "—The primary regulation of the university is , that ** the provisors and censors of the lyceums , the principals and regents of colleges , as well as the under-masters in these

    schools , shall be restricted to celibacy , and to living in common . No woman can be lodged or received in the interior of lyceums or colleges . "— Nothing shall be printed regarding the studies , discipline , and con . ditions of schools , without the inspection and approbation of the rectors and council of academies ; trfio may shut up those institutions in which principles con-

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    trary to those professed by tlrts imiversity shall prevail . "—Las t * ly , " We reserve to ourselves the pozver of reforming , by means of decrees adopted in our

    council , every decision , statute , or act ) emanating from the council of the university /' On reading the above , the first / idea that came into my mind was , that your friend the Christian Philanthropist would

    immediately , with a . virtuous indignation , give up his hero , as the patron of Christian liberty . But ho \ y much , Mr * Editor , was I surprised to find from his pen a laboured apology for this very decree . He acknowledges indeed , that the business of education is

    almost entirely entrusted to the Catholic clergy ; but says he , 6 i he allows of Protestant universities . " This is a mistake , there is but one university ; under which there is a facility of theology in every ( near 9 O ) metropolitan

    churches , and there is one at Strasburgh , and one at Geneva , ( as near the borders as possible , ) for the reformed religion , that is , for the presbyterian Galvinist church ; in other words , for the

    secondary establishment under the concordat . — He goes on to observe , ( for all his arguments are in the way of comparison with abuses in other countries ^) that ** th ere is no test established in France ,

    for admission into civit offices /* True ; but if nobody is to be edu * cated but as the emperor directs ^ he has no subsequent ofccasi 6 n fot a test act . —He professes to sec no difference between ordering a uniformity of books , &c . through all the schools ; and the university of Oxford appointing what books are to be read * Now I an *

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    30 $ The tf&poTebn Decfotfot A French University .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/16/