Essays on the Philosophy of Instruction (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essays on the Philosophy of Instruction The present is emphatically an age of philosophical inquiry and of corresponding improvement in the various arts of life. No former period has been so generally characterised by a disposition to question the truth of those principles and the utility of those customs, which appear to have no better foundation, than that of antiquity, or common consent. This remark applies to politics and civil government, to agriculture, and to most of the mechanic arts. In surveying the ancient world, as presented in civil history, we observe here and there a luminous region of some little extent. In successive ages many of the arts and sciences shone forth with great lustre in Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, Phoenicia, Greece, and Italy. In general, however, these lights were surrounded with great darkness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.