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    EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 363

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    had extended its sphere of action to tlie Ca , pe of Good Hope . In 1806 the Dutch governmentmoved thereto by the excellent results

    which had followed the efforts , of this Association , took the subject of popular instruction under its protection , adopted the system of

    territorial division devised "by the Society of Public "Weal , and instituted a complete system of Primary and Secondary Schools

    throughout the country ; so that Holland , in which Primary Instruction was absolutely null in 1780 , contained , in 1809 , no less than four

    _.. thousand four hundred and fifty-one Primary Schools , in which one hundred and ninety thousand children , out of a total population of

    one million nine hundred thousand souls , received the benefits of a systematic education .

    In 1810 when Holland had been united to France , MM . Cuvier and 1 ST 6 el were , sent into that country to study the educational system

    there established , with a view to its introduction into Prance . Before these gentlemen had terminated their investigations , the government

    by whom they had been appointed was overthrown , and the Bourbonsthough aware of the necessity of making farther provision for

    the e , ducation of the children of the people , were endeavoring to neutralise what they conceived to be the dangerous tendency of

    popular instruction , by giving- to it a character almost exclusively reliiousand providing for the inculcation of the duty of passive

    obedience g , to " the powers that be , " by placing the control of the Primary Education of the country in the hands of the clerical body .

    Cuvi According er and Noel ly , when to the , Minister after the of presentation Public Instruction of the , the report Royal of Ordi MM - .

    nance Supervision of February of Prim 29 ary th , 1816 Instruction , created in Committees each canton of Inspection of France and , in

    imitation of those in Holland , these Committees , which , in the latwere ter country in France , were freel arbitraril y elected y named by the by laity the and Rectors munici of pal Academies bodies , ,

    . subje , cted to the approval , of the Prefects of Departments , and placed under the direction and authority of the clergy of each canton .

    re-estab As previousl lished in y all remarked their fo , rmer the ancient privileges reli ; g and ious the orders examp were le of now the

    disciples of La Salle—commonly known by the denomination of the foremost Freres de in la availing Doctrine themselves Chretiemie _, of alread the y facilities alluded thus to , and afforded who them were

    for moulding the minds of the people through the influences of the of school more -room recent —being date eagerl the work y followed of Public by Instr a host u of ction other was congregations soon almost _,

    ecclesiastical exclusivel The ignorance y committed teachers and , to _incajDacity and clerical the consequent hands of the . gre intellectual ater number and of moral these

    that degradation all the liberal of the minds pup , ils of confided the country to them were , soon roused became to the so necessity evident

    tion of placing thus excited Primary taking Instruction shape in upon the" a foundation different basis of the ; " the Society opposi for - 22

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    Education In France. 363

    EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 363

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/3/