were the graduates? Dr. Duff tells us, "They were infidels or sceptics of the most perfect kind, believing in nothing, and believing not even in the existence of a Deity, and glorying in their unbe- lief."-j- And may we not now see, in the insurrec- tion and wholesale butchery of which we hear such fearful accounts from British India, the legitimate results of this system? The Government in India, in mistaken kindness, has warmed into life in her bosom the viper that is now stinging her to death. From these records we learn the views of those mighty minds, who formed the systems of educa- tion followed for centuries in our own and other lands. Hear now the deliberate judgments of some of the first minds of our own day, in this regard. fDufFs speech in the Gen. Ass. of the ch. of 8, for 1835. Claims of the Bible. 113 Says Dr. McMaster, in an address delivered at his inauguration as President of Miami University: " We will not allow ourselves to doubt, that amid a good deal of a jargon of a contrary tenor, the voice of the true people of our land is still, that the system of education in our schools, superior and subordinate, ought to be based on religious instruc- tion."* The Hon. Edward Everett, in an address deliv-