Word: fiefs
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...mayor and dependent upon the cure. But what is still worse, the instruction itself is wholly at the discretion and subject to the approbation of the cure and the bishop. Schools are in such a manner dependent on the Church, that they are scarcely more than a fief of the latter. Now you know that the Catholic clergy of France are not in sympathy with any enlightenment of the people. As a result, it is as much religious instruction that is given in our schools as primary instruction. The pupils learn little reading or writing, but much catechism; little history...