Word: laicisms
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...Pronounce the Word!" It was now four hours past midnight. The grand debate narrowed to an issue?and what an issue! Some Deputies of the Left (thoroughgoing anticlericals) demanded to know "if the Government will pronounce the word 'laicism'" in connection with an obscure educational bill totally extraneous to the debate...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...