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considered in the least degree inconsistent with the interests 

 of his church or his religion. 



" He expressed a strong preference for a totally separate 

 education: hut candidly admitted the ohjections to such a 

 course in a small and not very wealthy island, and drew a 

 wide distinction between combination for all purposes, and 

 for some only. 



" There were certain courses of instruction in which com- 

 bined instruction could not possibly be given consistently 

 with due regard to the faith of the pupils ; there were others 

 where it was difficult to decide whether it could or could not 

 properly be given ; there were others again where it might be 

 certainly given without objection. - 



" On this understanding the plan carried into effect is 

 based : but the Legislature have gone far beyond what was 

 then agreed ; and whilst Archbishop Manning would have 

 assented to an arrangement which would have excluded 

 certain branches only of education from the common course, 

 the law, as now in force, allows exemption from attendance 

 on all, provided competent instrnction is given to the pupils 

 in the same branches elsewhere ; till, in fact, all that remains 

 obligatory is attendance at examinations, and at the course of 

 instruction in one or more of four "iven bi'anches of educa- 

 tion, if it should so happen that no adequate teaching in that 

 particular, branch is given in the pupil's own school. 



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