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education for their children can get it without_ being burdened

more than other taxpayers. The financial arrangement has been judged fair in Scotland. By a fully Christian education" I mean an institutional one, with school, teachers and " atmosphere " Christian ; not instruction for an hour a week which, even if given by a believing teacher and not watered down, is isolated from the rest of school life. It would have been out of place to urge my belief that in another sense a " fully Christian education " is Catholic.—Yours faithfully, [The real question is whether Roman Catholics can be accorded for "Christian education " in England financial subventions which are not accorded in England in respect of any other denominational schools.— ED., Spectator.]