'To instruct children from pagan books is not only to
teach them useless things, it is to take them from God, and sacrifice
them to the Demon. What are all these things but wind and smoke? Are
there no other means by which to cultivate the mind, to give the tongue
eloquence? Thy praises, Lord, so eloquently sung in the Scriptures,
would have elevated, would have fixed, my feeble heart, and prevented
its becoming a prey to unclean birds. Ah! there is more than one way of
sacrificing man to demons . . . Is it thus, then, that the child should
be trained up? Are those the models that should be presented to him? In
acting thus you offer neither birds, nor animals, nor human blood even,
you offer what is much more abominable, you immolate the young on the
altar of Satan.'
