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the truth, aud did not mean to 

 withhold it from the people forever. 

 But he believed in preparing them 

 to receive it before giving it to them. 

 Hence in part his interest in edu- 

 cation, and an explanation of the 

 famous rescript of September 5, 

 1774, which, as carried out b}' 

 Minister von Zeidlitz, became the 

 foundation of the improved meth- 

 ods in Prussian teaching. Logic, 



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the king wrote, must be taught ef- 

 fectively after the manner of Locke 

 and Quintilian, and Latin and 

 Greek in such a way as to bring 

 young men into their atmosphere. 

 The sincerity with which the 

 king held his opinion as to the 

 proper treatment of the people Js 

 seen in the fact that he directed 

 the academv to offer a prize for 



IMMANUEL Kant. 



the best answer to the question, 

 'Is it lawful, i. e., right, to de- 

 ceive the people?' At the time 

 of d'Alembert's death the philo- 

 sophical class in the academy had 

 shrunk to three members. Again 

 turning to a Frenchman for help 

 the king asked Condorcet, perma- 

 nent secretary of the French Acad- 

 emy, to take d'Alembert's place in 

 directing the work of the Berlin 



