When the schools were purely local and voluntary this was not a serious objection. With the rise of State support. and the widening of the units for maintenance and control from the lonely community or district to the town. the county. and the State. the situation changed. With the development of the West. after 1800. with its indifference as to distinctions still powerful in the older States of the East. the coming of foreign immigration. which began to be marked after about 1825. and the intermingling of peoples of different faiths in the rapidly evolving cities and towns. religious uniformity ceased to exist. Majority rule now for a time followed. but this was soon forced to give way to the still more important governmental principle of religious freedom. Than.
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