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A learned and elegant work, which narrates the rise and progress of Christian Schools, from the sixtieth year of the Christian era onwards, ends its long journey at the date of the Reformation, and takes leave of its varied subject, and of its lines of Christian Scholars, in t...
It will not have escaped the attentive reader, that almost all the history, pedagogic or otherwise, which has been sketched in this essay, falls within the lines of what has bee...
21. CHAPTER XVII.1. All examinations, as projected by the _Ratio Studiorum_, are conducted by word of mouth. Writing enters the examinations, only when the written word itself is the subject of...
19. CHAPTER XV.What is developed to perfection can make other things like unto itself; it is prolific. So the Aristotelian principle has it: _Perfectum est, quod generat simile sibi._ This is...
7. CHAPTER III.Voluntary poverty, the austerest manner of life, the ungrateful labor of studies, and the perpetual self-discipline of a mind like his, ever bent on lofty thoughts and endeavori...
15. CHAPTER XI.It seems an apt distribution of our subject, to consider, first, the formation of the Master, and secondly, the formation of the Scholar. The Master's development will conduct u...
18. CHAPTER XIV.1. Many wise things had been said by the experienced masters of old on the subject of disputation. Thus Robert of Sorbon, the founder of the College of the Sorbonne, had put it...
16. CHAPTER XII.When Ignatius of Loyola was governing the Society, the multiplicity of affairs which he had to administer, and the absorption of mind which they demanded, did not prevent him fr...
8. CHAPTER IV.The written rule about the system of education is found in a double stage of development. The first is that in which Loyola left it: it gives us the outline. The second is that...
17. CHAPTER XIII.1. Having finished his course of teaching literature, the Jesuit returns to his higher studies. Divinity and its allied sciences stand out in prominence for their intrinsic dign...
10. CHAPTER VI.As the second part of this book is intended to be a pedagogic analysis of the mental culture imparted, I need not sketch here, save in a general way, the intellectual scope prop...
5. CHAPTER I.A learned and elegant work, which narrates the rise and progress of Christian Schools, from the sixtieth year of the Christian era onwards, ends its long journey at the date of...
14. CHAPTER X.So centralized an Order as the Society of Jesus, which formed its Professors for every country, and sent them from one place to another, undertook, in doing so, to exhibit a def...
12. CHAPTER VIII.The first two colleges were established in the same year, 1542,--one of them in the royal university at Coimbra in Portugal, the other at Goa in Hindustan. Though they were orga...
9. CHAPTER V.What was the response of the Christian world, when it had become alive to the nature of this new power in its midst, and to the proposal which the new power made? What did the a...
13. CHAPTER IX.According to a contemporary chronicle for the year 1556, the first announcement of the death of Ignatius caused such a profound sentiment of grief in all members of the Order, t...
6. CHAPTER II.The story of the cavalier wounded on the ramparts of Pampeluna has often been told. Loyola was not at the moment governor of the city, nor in any responsible charge. But officia...
20. CHAPTER XVI.The subject of Literary Exercises and School Management is treated in such a manner by the critics of 1586, that justice could be done to it, only by transcribing, word for word...
11. CHAPTER VII.Sweet is the holiness of youth, says Chaucer. Nor less grateful to the eye are those gentle manners of youth, which another bard portrays as impersonated in his "celestial light...
4. PART I.2. CHAPTER XIII.3. CHAPTER XV.1. CHAPTER XI.