Even in our model republic only primary education stands neutral, while private enterprise has made nearly every higher college a stronghold of dogmatism. And even the semi-secularism of primary instruction is more than offset by the ultra-orthodoxy of “Sunday-schools.” Millions of factory children have to sacrifice their only day of leisure at the bidding of their dogmatic task-master and with the timid connivance of their parents. “We cannot row against the stream,” I have heard even Freethinkers say. “Let the youngsters join the crowd; if it does them no good, it can do no harm.” But it will do harm, even beyond the waste of time and the wasted opportunities for health-giving exercise. The process of dogmatic inoculation may fail to serve its direct purpose, but the weekly repetition of the experiment is sure to contaminate the moral organism with unsound humors which may become virulent at unexpected times and, likely enough, undermine that very peace of the household which a short-sighted mother hoped to promote by driving her boys to Sunday-school, as she would drive troublesome cattle to a public pasture. The Freethinkers of every community should combine to engage a teacher, or at least facilitate home instruction by collecting text-books of Secularism, such as Voltaire’s “Philosophical Cyclopedia;” Rousseau’s “Emile;” Hallam’s “History of the Middle Ages;” Ingersoll’s pamphlets; Paine’s “Age of Reason;” Lecky’s “History of Rationalism” and “History of Morals;” Lessing’s “Nathan;” Goethe and Schiller’s “Xenions;” Darwin’s “Descent of Man;” Plutarch’s Biographies; Trelawney’s “Last Days of Shelley and Byron;” McDonnell’s Freethought novels; Parker Pillsbury’s “Review of Sabbatarian Legislation;” Reade’s “Martyrdom of Man;” Bennett’s “Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times;” Gibbon’s “History of Christianity;” Keeler’s “Short History of the Bible;” “Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions;” “Supernatural Religion;” Greg’s “Creed of Christendom;” Lord Amberley’s “Analysis of Religious Belief;” “Religion Not History.”