Professor Maurice's Letter to the Working-Men's College on Secular and
Denominational Education (Macmillan) is a characteristic and powerful appeal in favour of enlisting "all the force in the land," "all the belief in the land," by whatever name it calls itself, in the great 41 struggle with ignorance, and the crimes of which ignorance is the parent." It is well worth the study of Mr. Cremer and those gentlemen who are crying out for the virtual destruction of the existing schools, only because they are called denominational, as a preliminary measure to the creation of a uniform secular system. Mr. Maurice is well known to have no sectarian or denominational leanings himself, but he knows better than Messrs. Cromer and Co. whore the strength for this great straggle really lies, and how wasteful, and even disgraceful, it is to alienate those who have really given us all the education we now have.
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