Staff and discipline, the spirit and matter of the teaching, every detail of study and recreation,[6121] all are imposed, conducted and restrained in these so-called free establishments; whatever they may be, ecclesiastic or secular, not only does the University surround and hamper them, but again it absorbs and assimilates them; it does not even leave them any external distinctive appearance.

It is true that, in the small seminaries, the exercises begin at the ringing of a bell, and the pupils wear an ecclesiastic dress; but the priest's gown, adopted by the State that adopts the Church, is still a State uniform.

In the other private establishments, the uniform is that which it imposes, the lay uniform, belonging to colleges and lycees "under penalty of being closed "; while, in addition, there is the drum, the demeanor, the habits, ways and regularity of the barracks.

All initiative, all invention, all diversity, every professional or local adaptation is abolished.[6122] M.de Lanneau thus wrote[6123]: "I am nothing but a sergeant-major of languid and mangled classes...

to the tap of a drum and under military colors." Against the encroachments of this institutional university there is no longer neither public nor private shelter, since even domestic education at home, is not respected.