Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION BY MICHAEL MÜLLER, C.S.S.R., _Priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer._ BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY PATRICK DONAHOE, 19 FRANKLIN STREET. 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by PATRICK DONAHOE, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE INTRODUCTORY 7 CHAPTER II. EDUCATION--ITS OBJECT AND NECESSITY 17 CHAPTER III. ORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 41 CHAPTER IV. EXPOSÉ OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 75 CHAPTER V. EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ON THE MALE PORTION OF SOCIETY 82 CHAPTER VI. EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ON THE FEMALE PORTION OF SOCIETY 87 CHAPTER VII. WHAT IS IT TO BE A MOTHER? 110 CHAPTER VIII. EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM CONTINUED 128 CHAPTER IX. THE STATE.--ITS USURPATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.--ITS INCOMPETENCY TO EDUCATE 139 CHAPTER X. THE STATE A ROBBER.--VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND COMMON LAW 163 CHAPTER XI. REMEDY FOR THE DIABOLICAL SPIRIT AND THE CRIMES IN OUR COUNTRY 189 CHAPTER XII. THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEM ALONE SATISFIES THE WANTS OF ALL, AND CAN SAVE THE REPUBLIC 233 CHAPTER XIII. THE CATHOLIC PRIEST ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 296 CHAPTER XIV. ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS 340 CHAPTER XV. ZEAL OF THE PRIEST FOR THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN 373 PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.