It appears from a telegram from Melbourne, that the .Government
of Victoria has excised from the school-books all references to Christ and his teachings, as contrary to the principle of religious equality. Sir Bryan O'Loghlen has promised to move a resolution to restore these references, but of course he will be defeated. We venture to assert, though we have not seen these books, that the most striking of all these references have not been excised,—namely, the dates to and from the birth of Christ, which signify always that that event is the central one of human history. Just imagine a history of mankind—and even in Australia they must teach some history—with all references to Christ and his teaching carefully left out! And then we laugh at the Legitimists of 1816, who, it is affirmed, circulated a school-book about the history of modern France in which no reference was made to the Revolution, and Napoleon was accepted as the regular heir of the House of France.
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