Um die eigne Last.]
THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION (1882)
[Footnote 76: The Principal Subjects of Education: an extract from the
essay, Science and Art in Relation to Education.]
[Footnote 77: this discussion: "this" refers to the last sentence in the
preceding paragraph, in which Huxley says that it will be impossible to
determine the amount of time to be given to the principal subjects
of education until it is determined "what the principal subjects of
education ought to be."]
[Footnote 78: Francis Bacon: cf. note [Footnote 26].]
[Footnote 79: the best chance of being happy: In connection with
Huxley's work on the London School Board, his biographer says that
Huxley did not regard "intellectual training only from the utilitarian
point of view; he insisted, e. g., on the value of reading for amusement
as one of the most valuable uses to hardworked people."]
[Footnote 80: "Harmony in grey": cf. with l. 34 in Browning's Andrea del
Sarto.]
[Footnote 81: Hobbes (1588-1679): noted for his views of human nature
and of politics. According to Minto, "The merits ascribed to his style
are brevity, simplicity and precision."]
[Footnote 82: Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): an Irish prelate noted for
his philosophical writings and especially for his theory of vision which
was the foundation for modern investigations of the subject. "His style
has always been esteemed admirable; simple, felicitous and sweetly
melodious. His dialogues are sustained with great skill." Minto's Manual
of English Prose Literature.]
[Footnote 83: We have been recently furnished with in prose: The Iliad
of Homer translated by Lang, Leaf and Myers, the first edition of
which appeared in 1882, is probably the one to which Huxley refers. The
Odyssey, translated by Butcher and Lang, appeared in 1879. Among the
best of the more recent translations of Homer are the Odyssey by George
Herbert Palmer; the Iliad by Arthur S. Way, and the Odyssey by the same
author.]
[Footnote 84: Locke (1632-1704): an English philosopher of great
influence. His chief work is An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.]
[Footnote 85: Franciscus Bacon sic cogitavit: thus Francis Bacon
thought.]
THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION (1863)
[Footnote 86: The Method of Scientific Investigation is an extract
from the third of six lectures given to workingmen on The Causes of the
Phenomena of Organic Nature in Darwiniana.]
[Footnote 87: these
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