The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79

The League's Affirmations

The League's Affirmations.

The League affirms:—
(1) That it will resist any attempt to interfere with [ unclear: o] purely secular system of State education.
(2) That in matters of religion strict neutrality is [ unclear: the] only just attitude that a State can assume tor its citizens.
(3) That to introduce any form of religious [ unclear: instruction] into our State system of education would be [ unclear: debut] mental to the best interests of the schools, [ unclear: leadi] to sectarian strife among the children, and [ unclear: imp] ing a religious test upon the teachers.
(4) That to determine the question of religious [ unclear: instru] tion, or Bible-reading, in schools by means [ unclear: of] referendum would be absolutely subversive of the neutrality of the State in matters of religion.
(5) That the Nelson system, even if it be within [ unclear: the] letter of the Education Act, is an ingenious [ unclear: evas] of its real spirit and intent, and that the [ unclear: League] will oppose this innovation.
(6) That the League is strongly opposed to the [ unclear: introduction] of the New South Wales text-book into [ unclear: the] State schools of the Dominion.