. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . heir masters jurisdiction—^with disdain herefuseth it, and scorns the late custom, in some places, ofcommuting whipping into money, and ransoming boys fromthe rod at a set price. If he hath a stubborn youth, correc-tion-proof, he debaseth not his authority by contesting withhim, but fairly, if he can, puts him away before his obstinacyhath infected others. He is moderate in inflicting deserved correction. Manya schoolmaster better answereth the name paidotribes thanpaidagogos^—rather tearing the scholars flesh wit
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . heir masters jurisdiction—^with disdain herefuseth it, and scorns the late custom, in some places, ofcommuting whipping into money, and ransoming boys fromthe rod at a set price. If he hath a stubborn youth, correc-tion-proof, he debaseth not his authority by contesting withhim, but fairly, if he can, puts him away before his obstinacyhath infected others. He is moderate in inflicting deserved correction. Manya schoolmaster better answereth the name paidotribes thanpaidagogos^—rather tearing the scholars flesh with whippingthan giving them good education. No wonder if his scholarshate the muses, being presented unto them in the shape offiends and furies. Such an Orbilius mars more scholars thanhe makes. Their tyranny hath caused many tongues tostammer which spake plain by nature, and whose stutteringat first was nothing else but fears quavering on their speechat their masters presence, and whose mauling them abouttheir heads hath dulled those who in quickness exceededtheir SIR THOMAS BROWNE. Between 1605 and 1682, dates wMchmark the birth and death of this mostsingular doctor of medicine and meditative Diogenes, Eng-land was racked with conflicts of intellect, interests, andarmies in the field. Every man of passion and wisdomfound himself whirled by the elements to this side or that,every man except this cool-witted country physician-phil-osopher. He passed through Oxford with credit, traveleda little, studied medicine at the School of Padua, read omniv-orously, and ultimately settled down to practice in Norwich in1637. He won success by his skill in doctoring and in mar-rying well. Browne argued against marriage, but his recordof eleven children born during his forty-one years of wedlocksufficiently refutes his theoretical objections. He was averseto taking sides in questions of Church or State, but showed hisroyalist bias when neutrality was out of question. Whilecountry
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