Excerpt from The Struggle for National Education
We are constantly told by supercilious and inconsiderate Liberals that the present aspect of the question of national education in England is only a new version of the old quarrel between conventicle and steeple-house. The complaints against the Twenty-Fifth clause are set down to the resentment of a religious faction. The cry for universal School-boards is explained by the spleen of dissent. The denunciation of Mr. Forster as a renegado from the principles of those Puritan ancestors of whom he made such untimely boast, is traced to the mortifications of nonconformist vanity and arrogance. The whole controversy is narrowed to the ancient story of rival churches and wrangling sects. Even Mr. Fawcett, in his new and slightly diverting character of "moderate churchman," is refreshed by a Conservative cheer for imputing sectarian aims to the very men who advocate national education and the absolute exclusion of denominational interests.
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