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cerned. He then continued Leonard anc three more volumes which appeared in 1 1787 respectively.

But those of great minds and large he high places who sought the welfare of the stood, appreciated and sympathised with t the book. Henning says that it was tr Danish; and that the nobles-amongst oth tess Schimmelman-were so much impr fluenced by the reading of it that they improve the condition of the peasantry estates. Count Zinzendorf, the Austrian Finance, consulted Pestalozzi as to educa tion based on the ideas set forth in the bo Perhaps the greatest individual triumph was its influence on Fellenberg, who says made a deep impression on me, and each I was more and more convinced of its trut in a burst of deep feeling caused by the that I vowed to my mother that I would to the poor and forsaken children". Thus great Swiss reformer.

may thoroughly understand what they villingly do that which brings them a n: "Human morality is nothing more results from the development of the re and gratitude which the nursling

nings of education, he writes: "The of the child's powers ought to come ion in the work of the paternal house; ecessarily, that which the father and stand, that which most engages their t which they are best able to teach ". -istic passage-half rhapsody and half ■ one number: "Summer day! teach crawls upon the earth that the fruits the midst of the fires and storms of t to ripen they need the gentle rains, v, and the refreshing rest of night. r day, that man, formed of the dust vs and ripens like a plant rooted in

n on such subjects as: the abuse of charity schools; the duty of society to sec individual the means of gaining an hones medical police; and so on.

In this periodical he published a series tales, under the somewhat fanciful title of to my A B C Book, or to the Elements of m The deep insight and searching irony-in r political and social conditions in the countr -in them may be seen in the following sel

"The Flame and the Tallow.

""I am always ashamed to see myself so said the flame to the tallow.

"The tallow answered: 'I thought you w of losing me, because then you always disa ""Foolish grease,' replied the flame, 'it shine only so long as I live upon you, but I of letting it be known.'"

“The Oak and the Grass.

"One morning the grass said to the oak, branches it grew: 'I should get on much

Privilege of the Fishes.

a pond complained that they were, eighbours in other ponds, persecuted mereupon an old pike, who was the pronounced this sentence: 'That the ke amends, shall in future permit, nmon fishes to become pikes '."

"Equality.

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o a giant: 'We have equal rights!' od friend; but you cannot walk in my giant."

fables "Illustrations of my A B C," Gertrude, Pestalozzi intended to draw et that they were yet another attempt e elements of my philosophy," i.e., the of the race, through education, as the nan happiness.

show very clearly what was the real ci's work, viz., national regeneration naiming at the highest individual of Pestalozzi's genius: his originality, de and independence of thought-untinged and 1 by any outside influence whatsoever-being best.

In 1787 he published the fourth volume of and Gertrude; and again took up farming.

In 1797 appeared his Investigations into t Nature in the Development of the Human Race an attempt to find a philosophical basis fo and was undertaken at the suggestion o German philosopher Fichte. The following outline of the plan and purpose of the boo poses, at the outset, to answer the follo tions :

"What am I? what is the human species "What have I done? what is the human sp "What has the course of my life, suc been, made of me; and what has the course as it has been, made of the human species? "On what ground do my volition and rest, and must they rest, under the circu which I am placed ?

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