Note 16 — Chapter I · Introduction.

Br. Azarias calls this work a “condensation of all virulence and hatred against everything Catholic, but ill concealed beneath a tone of philosophic moderation.” American Ecclesiastical Review, 1890, p. 80. foll.—Another critic said recently of M. Compayré: “He misquotes and suppresses, blinded, I suppose, by a bad form of Anti-Jesuit disease. You can certainly learn from his book the fury of that malady. In France, one may fairly say, M. Compayré is recognized as meaning to attack the beliefs of Christian pupils, and as ranging himself essentially on the side of those who wish ‘to eliminate the hypothesis of God’ from the education of children.” (This opinion was expressed in a resolution of five hundred teachers in a meeting at Bordeaux in 1901.) Mr. Stockley, of the University of New Brunswick, in the American Ecclesiastical Review, July 1902, p. 44.—See also the criticism of Father Poland, S. J., in the American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1902.