Excerpt from Studies in Church History, Vol. 6: Cent; XIX. (Part II.) Law, subjecting the pulpit to police supervision, should be applied also to primarv schools, Bismarck said The Prussian government is very far from wishing to enter on any dogmatic disp'utations concerning the changes (sic) in the teachings of the Catholic Church; for every one of these teachings, which are received by so many German citizens ought to be sacred for both the nation and the government. As for the second' excuse, the pretense that the Church was guilty of aggressions on the authority of the State, the chancellor never pretended to substantiate his charge when summoned in parliament to produce his proofs, he simply replied: Search in your hearts, gentlemen! And the Lib erals exploded with laughte1, because of what they deemed a side Splitting joke. The most bitter reproaches, on the part of the Catholic deputies, never induced the persecutor to defend his' course with anything else than bare assertion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.