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Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
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Aristocratic
Education
House
of
Lords,
Jan.
25,
1920.--The
House
of
Lords
commenced
to-day
in
Committee
the
consideration
of
Clause
No.
52,000
of
the
Education
Bill,
dealing
with
the
teaching
of
Geometry
in
the
schools.
The
Leader
of
the
Government
in
presenting
the
clause
urged
upon
their
Lordships
the
need
of
conciliation.
The
Bill,
he
said,
had
now
been
before
their
Lordships
for
sixteen
years.
The
Government
had
made
every
concession.
They
had
accepted
all
the
amendments
of
their
Lordships
on
the
opposite
side
in
regard
to
the
original
provisions
of
the
Bill.
They
had
consented
also
to
insert
in
the
Bill
a
detailed
programme
of
studies
of
which
the
present
clause,
enunciating
the
fifth
proposition
of
Euclid,
was
a
part.
He
would
therefore
ask
their
Lordships
to
accept
the
clause
drafted
as
follows:
"The
angles
at
the
base
of
an
isosceles
triangle
are
equal,
and
if
the
equal
sides
of
the
triangle
are
produced,
the
exterior
angles
will
also
be
equal."
He
would
hasten
to
add
that
the
Government
had
no
intention
of
producing
the
sides.
Contingencies
might
arise
to
render
such
a
course
necessary,
but
in
that
case
their
Lordships
would
receive
an
early
intimation
of
the
fact.
The
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
spoke
against
the
clause.
He
considered
it,
in
its
present
form,
too
secular.
He
should
wish
to
amend
the
clause
so
as
to
make
it
read:
"The
angles
at
the
base
of
an
isosceles
triangle
are,
in
every
Christian
community,
equal,
and
if
the
sides
be
produced
by
a
member
of
a
Christian
congregation,
the
exterior
angles
will
be
equal."
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