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As the argument raged, it sometimes seemed as if the land of liberty, equality and fraternity were wrestling with its soul. Wrote Sorbonne Professor Henry Marrou in Le Monde: "Our teaching system is a heritage that has come down to us from a distant and ended epoch—not from that of the capitalistic bourgeoisie as so many naive people and pseudo-Marxists repeat, but . . . from the aristocratic society of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries ... I need not emphasize my own attachment to the classic humanities . . . But one must realize that this kind of teaching, which is excellent ... for a family of kindred souls capable of assimilating it, cannot transform itself into something it has never been nor sought to be—a system of mass education."