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tains, as it probably will do, a majority of sectaries; 

 and that they carry over the heads of a minority, 

 a resolution that certain theological formulas, 

 about which they all happen to agree, — say, for ex- 

 ample, the doctrine of the Trinity, — shall be 

 taught in the schools. Do they fondly imagine 

 that the minority will not at once dispute their in- 

 terpretation of the Act, and appeal to the Educa- 

 tion Department to settle that dispute? And if so, 

 do they suppose that any Minister of Education, who 

 wants to keep his place, will tighten boundaries 

 which the Legislature has left loose; and will give 

 a " final decision " which shall be offensive to every 

 Unitarian and to every Jew in the House of Com- 

 mons, besides creating a precedent which will after- 

 wards be used to the inujry of every Nonconform- 

 ist? The editor of the Guardian tells his friends 

 sternly to resist every attempt to throw the burden 

 of making the teaching undenominational on the 

 managers, and thanks me for the warning I have 

 given him. I return the thanks, with interest, for 

 his warning, as to the course the party he repre- 

 sents intends to pursue, and for enabling me thus 

 to draw public attention to a perfectly constitu- 

 tional and effectual mode of checkmating them. 



And, in truth, it is wonderful to note the sur- 

 prising entanglement into which our able editor 

 gets himself in the struggle between his native 

 honesty and judgment and the necessities of his 

 party. " We could not see," says he, " in the face 



