Concerning the Education of Clergymen

In the course of my travels the length and breadth of this land, often I am struck with the innocence of both Protestant and Catholic clergy in matters political and economic. For innocence, read if you will—ignorance. The seminaries teach next to nothing in these disciplines, and candidates for Holy Orders—with some honorable exceptions—seem to have acquired but scanty information about the civil social order before they begin to proceed to a school of theology.

Kirk