The Prussian Government has its own view of religious liberty.
In the Diet, on Monday, Dr. Bosse, the Minister of Public Instruction, defended the Ministry, who, he declared, desired only perfect freedom. Every parent who sent his son to school, was at liberty to have him taught any creed he pleased, but then it must be a positive creed. "He could not admit that Atheist parents complied with the law in having their children taught their purely negative opinions," Dr. Bosse evidently agrees with Brigham Young, who drew a distinction as to the doctrine of non-resistance. "If any- body," said the Mormon leader, "slaps me on one cheek, I, as a Christian, turn the other ; but if he slaps that, then I give him hell." Or, perhaps, he is a little more like Oliver Crom- well, who declared that all creeds should be tolerated; but if anybody thought that entitled him to teach the Sacrifice of
the Mass, he would find himself mistaken. The truth is, there are very few people who do not draw the line against religious liberty somewhere ; and the Prussian Government is only peculiar, and, as we think, wrong, in drawing it against abstract negative propositions. Religious liberty does not include the right to teach Mormon practices, but it does in- clude the right to teach that man has no evidence of the supernatural.
