Such is the brief record of the manner in which the world’s modern philosophers are treated in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_. From this work hundreds of thousands of Americans are garnering their educational ideas. XI RELIGION Throughout several of the foregoing chapters I have laid considerable emphasis on the narrow parochial attitude of the _Britannica’s_ editors and on the constant intrusion of England’s middle-class Presbyterianism into nearly every branch of æsthetics. The _Britannica_, far from being the objective and unbiased work it claims to be, assumes a personal and prejudiced attitude, and the culture of the world is colored and tinctured by that viewpoint. It would appear self-obvious to say that the subject of religion in any encyclopædia whose aim is to be universal, should be limited to the articles on religious matters. But in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ this is not the case. As I have shown, those great artists and thinkers who do not fall within the range of _bourgeois_ England’s suburban morality, are neglected, disparaged, or omitted entirely. Not only patriotic prejudice, but evangelical prejudice as well, characterizes this encyclopædia’s treatment of the world’s great achievements; and nowhere does this latter bias exhibit itself more unmistakably than in the articles relating to Catholicism. The trickery, the manifest ignorance, the contemptuous arrogance, the inaccuracies, the venom, and the half-truths which are encountered in the discussion of the Catholic Church and its history almost pass the bounds of credibility. The wanton prejudice exhibited in this department of the _Britannica_ cannot fail to find resentment even in non-Catholics, like myself; and for scholars, either in or out of the Church, this encyclopædia, as a source of information, is not only worthless but grossly misleading.