Open Convents, Or, Nunneries And Popish Seminaries Dangerous to the Morals ...
Open Convents, Or, Nunneries And Popish Seminaries Dangerous to the Morals ...
Theodore Dwight
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There is nothing extravagant, therefore, in concluding that Miss Monk's *' Disclosures" may be true, notwithstanding the enormities wliich they relate. Popery is the same now 96 that it was maDy ceoturies ago. All that it has Idst ia later times, has been reluctantly yielded to the intelligence and experience of the world; and is not owing to any volimtary change of doctrine or conduct. CHAPTER IX. Is education or proselyting the real object of Nannehes and Roman Catholic Seminaries in the Unit...ed States ?— Testimony furnished by Miss Reed on this subject. — Secrecy in managing and despotism in governing nun- O^E object which the Catholics professedly have in view in the establishment of their insti* tutions in the United States, is the education of youths of both sexes. It is a little remarkable, that those who have so uniformly inculcated the sentiment that '' ignorance is the mother of de- votion," should feel such an interest in this great subject as to leave their own countries, where that which they consider the only true faith pre- vails, and is preserved to a great extent by the practical influence of the maxim above-men- tioned, and should visit a people where the in* dispensable importance of universal education 97 ia -aGknowledged by all, aod very generaHy practised ; and this for the mere purpose of en- gaging in literary instruction.
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