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Varieties
The League of teachingWe read in the Siècle of July 10th, 1867:
“A section of the association founded by Jean Macé has just been authorized in Metz, by the prefecture, under the name of Circle of the League of Teaching.”
The Moselle brings about it:
“The elected steering committee of the circle took office and decided to begin its work by founding a popular library, like those that render such a great service in Alsace.
For this work, the Circle of Metz is asking for everyone's help, and is asking for the support of anyone interested in the development of instruction and education in our city. These memberships, accompanied by a membership fee, whose value and method of payment are optional, and donations of books, will be received by any member of the committee."
As we have said, when we spoke of the League of Teaching (Spiritist Review, March, and April 1867), our sympathies are conquered by all progressive ideas; we only criticized the mode of execution of this project. We will, therefore, be happy to see practical applications of this beautiful idea.
“A section of the association founded by Jean Macé has just been authorized in Metz, by the prefecture, under the name of Circle of the League of Teaching.”
The Moselle brings about it:
“The elected steering committee of the circle took office and decided to begin its work by founding a popular library, like those that render such a great service in Alsace.
For this work, the Circle of Metz is asking for everyone's help, and is asking for the support of anyone interested in the development of instruction and education in our city. These memberships, accompanied by a membership fee, whose value and method of payment are optional, and donations of books, will be received by any member of the committee."
As we have said, when we spoke of the League of Teaching (Spiritist Review, March, and April 1867), our sympathies are conquered by all progressive ideas; we only criticized the mode of execution of this project. We will, therefore, be happy to see practical applications of this beautiful idea.
Mrs. Walker
The doctors and interns of the Charity Hospital received, on Saturday, during the morning visit, one of their American colleagues, that got a certain reputation from the last American war.
This surgeon was no other than Mrs. Walker who, during the American Civil War, ran a large ambulance service. Petite, of a delicate complexion, dressed in the elegant simplicity that distinguishes the ladies of society, Mrs. Walker was received very sympathetically and very respectfully. She took a very keen interest in the two major services, one surgical, the other medical.
Her presence at the Charity Hospital proclaimed a new principle that received its blessings in the new world: the equality of women before science.
(National opinion)
This surgeon was no other than Mrs. Walker who, during the American Civil War, ran a large ambulance service. Petite, of a delicate complexion, dressed in the elegant simplicity that distinguishes the ladies of society, Mrs. Walker was received very sympathetically and very respectfully. She took a very keen interest in the two major services, one surgical, the other medical.
Her presence at the Charity Hospital proclaimed a new principle that received its blessings in the new world: the equality of women before science.
(National opinion)
(See the Spiritist Review, June 1867, and January 1866, on the emancipation of women)
Iman, Grand Chaplain of the Sultan
“Saturday (July 6th),” says the Press, “the Iman or Grand Chaplain of the Sultan, Hairoulah-Effendi, visited Mgr. Chigi, nuncio of the Pope, and Mgr. the Archbishop of Paris."
The Sultan's trip to Paris is more than a political event, it is a sign of the times, the prelude to the disappearance of religious prejudices that have, for so long, raised a barrier between peoples and bloodied the world. Coming the successor of Muhammad, out of his own free will, to visit a Christian country, fraternizing with a Christian sovereign, it would have been on his part, not long ago, a daring act; today, this event seems quite natural. What is even more significant is the visit of the Iman, his great chaplain, to the heads of the Church. The initiative he took on this occasion, since the etiquette did not oblige him to do so, is a proof of the progress of the ideas. Religious hatreds are anomalies in the present century, and it bodes well for the future, to see one of the princes of Islam setting an example of tolerance and recanting secular prejudices.
One of the consequences of moral progress will, one day, certainly be the unification of beliefs; it will take place when the different cults recognize that there is only one God for all men, and that it is absurd and unworthy of Him to curse just because we do not worship Him in the same way.
The Sultan's trip to Paris is more than a political event, it is a sign of the times, the prelude to the disappearance of religious prejudices that have, for so long, raised a barrier between peoples and bloodied the world. Coming the successor of Muhammad, out of his own free will, to visit a Christian country, fraternizing with a Christian sovereign, it would have been on his part, not long ago, a daring act; today, this event seems quite natural. What is even more significant is the visit of the Iman, his great chaplain, to the heads of the Church. The initiative he took on this occasion, since the etiquette did not oblige him to do so, is a proof of the progress of the ideas. Religious hatreds are anomalies in the present century, and it bodes well for the future, to see one of the princes of Islam setting an example of tolerance and recanting secular prejudices.
One of the consequences of moral progress will, one day, certainly be the unification of beliefs; it will take place when the different cults recognize that there is only one God for all men, and that it is absurd and unworthy of Him to curse just because we do not worship Him in the same way.