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On the question of secular or denominational schools, the feel-

ing of the Conference was strongly favourable to the permission, at least, of purely secular schools. And with regard to denomi- national schools, the prevalent feeling was that, where a school received any State aid, the religious teaching should be confined to specified and well known hours, so that any child absent under the Conscience Clause should always know exactly what the hours of attendance for secular teaching should be. Even the strongest Churchman admitted that secular schools had a right to demand State aid, and that much of the specifically denominational teach- ing was very worthless as education.

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