. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . * inter-preted them. In the schools of that day no attention was> paid tothe despised mother-tongue. Even students of theology were notcapable of composing letters correct in orthography and fonnation of the ability to think was wholly neglected in theschools. Such a training, in truth, could produce only narrow-hearted pedants. At home the children, both lioys and girls, wereflogged for all youthful misdemeanors. From infancy children were XIV.—11. Fig. 25. — L :.... Kuler. a medal
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . * inter-preted them. In the schools of that day no attention was> paid tothe despised mother-tongue. Even students of theology were notcapable of composing letters correct in orthography and fonnation of the ability to think was wholly neglected in theschools. Such a training, in truth, could produce only narrow-hearted pedants. At home the children, both lioys and girls, wereflogged for all youthful misdemeanors. From infancy children were XIV.—11. Fig. 25. — L :.... Kuler. a medal (original size). From 162 GERMANY VyDER THE LAST OF THE HAPSBURGS. treated unnaturally and ?\\-ith rough compulsion. Yet in schools wema)- discover the dawn of improvement. This was effected b}- Lockeswritings upon education, his rational methods behig introduced intosome institutions, particularly into those of Fraucke at Halle. The pohtical sciences were not better off than history. In thefirst half of the eighteenth century they were confined chiefly to the
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