But there has been a triumph far greater and wider.

Everywhere among the leading modern nations the same general tendency is seen.

During the quarter-century just past the control of public instruction, not only in America but in the leading nations of Europe, has passed more and more from the clergy to the laity.

Not only are the presidents of the larger universities in the United States, with but one or two exceptions, laymen, but the same thing is seen in the old European strongholds of metaphysical theology.

At my first visit to Oxford and Cambridge, forty years ago, they were entirely under ecclesiastical control.