Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Defence of the Use of the Bible in the Public Schools: Argument of Henry F. Durant, Esq., In the Eliot School Case
The spectacle which is presented to-day in this court is indeed novel and strange. A worthy teacher of one of our principal public schools, who is bound by our wise and benevolent laws to impart the great gifts of free instruction in piety and morality and learning to his pupils, is arraigned as a criminal - arraigned by one of his own pupils at the bar of this court as a criminal because he has attempted to do his duty - because he has obeyed that ancient, wise and beneficent law, which in words of simple and familiar beauty enjoined upon him to impress upon the minds of the children committed to his care, those principles of piety, justice, love of country, humanity and universal bonevo lence, which are the basis of a Republican government and tend to secure the blessings of liberty.
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