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Cowper-Temple Now Hist.
The name of William Francis Cowper, afterwards Cowper-Temple (1811–1888), used attrib. to designate the clause which he introduced into the Education Act of 1870, or the religious teaching of an undenominational character in public elementary schools as provided for by this clause. Hence Cowper-ˈTempleism, Cowper-ˈTempleite.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 661/1 Clause 14 of that Act [sc. Education Act of 1870], generally known as the Cowper-Temple Clause, enacts that ‘in any school provided by a School Board, no religious catechism, or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination, shall be taught’. 1906Daily Chron. 24 May 7/7 Rather than secularism, Mr. Balfour would prefer universal Cowper-Templeism ‘with all its illogicality and its unfairness’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 25 June 3/1 Our attitude towards the Bible has changed since the invention of Cowper-Templeism. That compromise is impossible and unreasonable to-day. 1908Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 5/7 In all these schools there may be Cowper-Temple religious teaching. Ibid. 21 Apr. 1/4 Denominational colleges can be legally raided by Cowper-Templeites on the highwayman principle of first come first served. 1932R. A. Knox Broadcast Minds i. 9 Since the time of the ill-fated Cowper-Temple clause we have given up trying to solve ecclesiastical disputes on the principle of the Highest Common Factor. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IV. 800/1 By means of the Cowper-Temple clause this act also effected a compromise on the question of religious instruction, which was not superseded until 1944. |