This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. THE GREAT DIDACTIC. First Section. PANSOHIY AND THE AIM OF EDUCATION. There can be no doubt that it was chiefly the specu- i lations of Lord Verulam that fired the imagination of Comenius, and led him to conceive hopes of reducing all existing learning to a systematic form, and providing for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... PART I. THE GREAT DIDACTIC. First Section. PANSOHIY AND THE AIM OF EDUCATION. There can be no doubt that it was chiefly the specu- i lations of Lord Verulam that fired the imagination of Comenius, and led him to conceive hopes of reducing all existing learning to a systematic form, and providing for all the more ambitious youth of Europe, in a great Pansophic College, opportunities for the universal study of the whole body of science. To this universal and systematised learning he gave the name of Pansophia or Encyclopaedia. He was filled with high hopes of the benefits which would arise from a revision and arrangement of human knowledge--hopes which he shared with many men of his time, and which it would be rash for us to say were without sufficient foundation. The title of one of his treatises is 'A Prelude of Pansophy, in which the necessity of universal wisdom, its possibility and its practicability (if it be approached according to a certain method) is briefly and clearly demonstrated.' He draws a picture of the confusion of existing knowledge, and the inadequacy of the treatment of its various departments. He attributes this to the ignorance of those in one place of what had been done elsewhere, and to the too great specialisation of inquirers. The writer on jurisprudence was ignorant, it might be, of philosophy and physics, the writer on physics was ignorant of metaphysics, the writer on metaphysics and ethics ignored physics; and so forth. Hence inadequacy of treatment; hence, too, the fragmentary presentation of all knowledge. To cure this it was necessary that there should be an authorised and systematised view of all learning arranged in a philosophic order. Men who, in the higher departments of education, had been disciplined...
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