But it is certain that we were not Christians."-- Testimony of a free-thinker, Sainte-Beuve.) "In mass, the professors of the University, without being hostile to religion, are not religious.

The pupils feel this, and they leave this atmosphere, not fed on irreligion, but indifferent....

One goes away from the University but little of a Christian."] [Footnote 6337: Boissier, ibid., p.712] [Footnote 6338: In my youth, I was able to talk with some of those who lived during the Consulate.

All agreed in opinion.

One, an admirer of Condillac and founder of a boarding-school, had written for his pupils a number of small elementary treatises, which I still possess.] [Footnote 6339: Charles Hamel, "Histoire de Juilly," pp.