A curious item on secular public schools

Last updated on: January 9, 2017 at 10:29 pm

January 9, 2017 by Dan Peterson

Healy's Brownson portrait — Orestes Brownson (1803-1876), a New England writer and intellectual with early ties to the Transcendentalist movement who eventually became a prominent Catholic convert. For whatever it’s worth, his brother Oran converted to Mormonism at about the same time.
(Portrait by G. P. A. Healy; Wikimedia CC public domain)

Make of this what you will:

The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might [criticize] the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state — we said national — schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.

Orestes Brownson

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