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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

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1905

1905.06
[Ministerial speeches.]
In: Verslag van de handelingen der Staten-Generaal. Zitting van 20 September 1904–16 September 1905. Verslag der handelingen van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal gedurende het zittingjaar 1904–1905.
’s Gravenhage, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij 1905, pp. 1075–1079, 1081–1082, 1084, 1086–1088, 1090, 1092, 1094–1099, 1104–1105, 1110–1112, 1114–1115, 1124–1126, 1220–1227, 1258–1264, 1266, 1268, 1273, 1276, 1280–1282, 1284–1285, 1287, 1289–1290, 1305, 1307–1308, 1310–1312, 1323, 1335–1339, 1354–1356, 1360, 1364–1366, 1368–1377, 1377–1379, 1381, 1382, 1383, 1385–1386, 1389, 1390–1391, 1392, 1393–1394, 1521–1522, 1527–1529, 1595–1604, 1694–1700, 1707–1708, 1715–1716, 1724–1726, 1768–1769, 1770–1773, 1777–1778, 1783, 1789–1791, 1793–1796, 1809–1814, 1825–1826, 1833–1836, 1842–1843, 1853–1859, 1861, 1871, 1876, 1878–1883, 1905–1909, 1917–1918, 1919–1922, 1924–1925, 1928–1933, 1933–1934, 2011–2012, 2013–2014, 2015, 2017–2018, 2018–2021, 2026–2029, 2039–2043, 2045–2048, 2051–2052, 2052–2053.
Published in installments.
Not included in 1912.19: pp. 1084 (partly), 1323, 1377–1379, 1382, 1389, 1392, 1770–1773, 1861, 1933–1934, 2011–2012, 2015, 2018–2021, 2052–2053.

Kuyper’s frequent contributions during the second half of the 1904/1905 parliamentary year dealt particularly with the bill to amend the Higher Education Act (February 21–24, 1905; pp. 1075–1126), and with the regulation of primary education and the civil pensions law (March 3–5; pp. 1220–1933). The impressive series of speeches about primary education was interrupted only by a bill concerning inland navigation in Friesland (p. 1323), answers to an interpellation (pp. 1521–1529), and the Caisson Act (pp. 1768–1769). The emancipation of Christian education lay at the heart of the speeches reviewing the Primary Education Act and the civil pensions law. The concern of the opposition lay not so much in the idea of increasing state funding for private education per se, as in the lack of guarantees with respect to the quality of private education. For the Anti-Revolutionaries the spirit of education came first, whereas for the liberals it was quality that mattered most. After recommending an amendment to the budget allowing the Polytechnische School to change its name to Technische Hoogeschool Delft (pp. 1933–1934), Kuyper went on to discuss changes to the provincial bill (pp. 2011–2052). Finally, Kuyper rounded off his work as a minister in the Second Chamber by voicing his support, on May 5, for an amendment to a bill concerning the manufacture of medicines.

De Standaard (June 14, 1905) quoted a journalist who, based on an interview with Kuyper, calculated that Kuyper’s speeches in the Handelingen of February to June 1905 amounted to a total of 400 columns and would form a book numbering 650 pages.

After the results of the parliamentary elections held on June 16 and 28, 1905, the Kuyper cabinet tendered its resignation. The majority who supported the Christian political ideal in 1901 had become a minority set against a liberal/socialist coalition—and also, given the nature of the heated moments in the election campaign, against the anti-Kuyperians.