“You see, now, why the Church of of Rome abhors your schools. It is because you want to make men, and she wants to make brutes. You want to raise men to the highest sphere to which his intelligence can allow him to reach; she wants to keep him in the dust, at the feet of the priests; you want to form free citizens, she wants to form abject and obedient slaves of the priests; you teach man to keep his sacred promises and stand by his oath, she teaches him that the Pope has the right to dissolve the most sacred promises, and to annul all his oaths, even the oath of allegiance to his country…

“Now, what is a man who cannot make use of his ‘private personal judgment.’ Is he not a slave, an idiot, an ass? And what is a nation composed of men who do not make use of their private personal judgment in the research of truth and happiness. if not a nation of brutes, slaves and contemptible idiots?” — Charles Chiniquy

Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.

Book Contents

• Preface by Lutheran Librarian
• Rome and Education
• A Romish Bishop’s Testimony.

Publication Information

• Lutheran Library edition first published: 2021
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0