Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...religious element in the Owl is considerable, and his feathers are slightly ruffled by the breezes of controversy. It may not quite become the Magenta to meddle with such matters, yet there are one or two points which it behooves us to notice. The Owl's first article on secular education is good as far as it goes, and perhaps the writer did well to leave untouched the knotty and vexatious question of the public schools; but somebody, on page 27, speaks of "the horrors of that Dominican Inquisition in which some of us once so innocently and unquestionably believed...