Instead of admitting that that people's conceptions are different and rejoicing that there are so many of them, each adapted to the human group which believes in it, and essential to believers to help them along, he admits but one, his own, and he uses power to force it upon adherents.

He also has his own creed, his catechism, his imperative formula, and he imposes them .-- Henceforth,[63101] education shall be not only free and obligatory but again secular and nothing but secular.

Thus far, the great majority of parents, most of the fathers and all of the mothers, were desirous that it should at the same time be religious.

Without speaking of professing Christians, many heads of families, even lukewarm, indifferent or skeptical, judge that this mixture of the two is better for children, and especially for girls.

According to them, knowledge and faith should not enter into these young minds separate, but combined and as one aliment; at least, in the particular case in which they were concerned, this, in their view, was better for the child, for themselves, for the internal discipline of the household, for good order at home for which they were responsible, for the maintenance of respect, and for the preservation of morals.