THE STUDY OF HISTORY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 14

THE STUDY OF HISTORY.

Sir,—The recent decision (valuable, though belated) of educational authorities that history should have its due prominence in our schools and colleges, suggests to the writer that an involuaole addition to necessary knowledge would be acquired if "D'Aubigne's History of tho Reformation" were made an essential part of the reading in the higher classes of overy school and college. The most mighty movement in all European history, which changed the fate and character of the civilised world, and which gave us our liberty of . conscience and freedom to servo God according to its dictates—this stupendous event is lost to onr children, and oven to their teachers. Is it any wonder that, on leaving the shores of tlieso little islands they find themselves considered "impossible,' from a conversational point of view? To be ignorant of these things is indeed to be uneducated. lie knowledge of the past sheds light upon tho future, and gives necessarv prudence and caution to those who guido the affairs of ft nation, without which they are,blind leaders of the blind. It may be interesting to remark that tho author referred to was a Catholic, making this standard work of double value.— 1 ata ' ® tC " REVEILLE.