The Principal of the Working-Men's College, the Rev. F. D.
Maurice, in opening last Monday the new session, brought before the College a proposal proceeding from the Working-Women's College, in Queen's Square, for such an enlargement of the stronger and older institution as to enable it to include instruction for women as well as men. Mr. Maurice gave no opinion of his own on the proposal as a practical measure, but he made the suggestion the occasion for uttering a strong protest against the modern doctrine that women should be still taught for prudential .reasons to believe what men think they are strong enough to recognize as untrue. "It was absurd to bring up men as worshippers of Mammon, and women as worshippers of God." Certainly, to propose an exoteric creed for women and an esoteric scepticism for men, does seem like the most diabolic of all suggestions for multiplying the ineinceritiee and undermining the intellect of both sexes. To teach what you doubt, and to doubt what you feel it necessary in common prudence to teach, involves a double-stranded faithlessness,—trust in what is false for women, and distrust of what is true for men.
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