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sively in a proper estimate of our endoM'ments and deficiencies, but in a 

 more profound inspection of our minds, and a testing of them in rela- 

 tion to the eternal fitness of things (Wohlordnung). He alone can do 

 this, who has made himself acquainted with the order of the world. 



Modesty is the necessary result of this, therefore no man should 

 consider himself wise — c-o^os — for wisdom is in God alone, and man 

 can attain nothing more than the love of wisdom and should aim to be- 

 come <piXo(.-o(poi. A true philosopher is one who reflects on God and 

 the world, the source and nature of things, the arrangements of the 

 world, and the Summum Bonum, a Supreme Good. Every thing good 

 comes from God, whose presence is universal, and whose power ar- 

 ranges all things. 



The will of God must be sought by men ; sometimes by oracles, 

 (f^ccvTiK)]). Whatever is pleasing to God they should do, and aim to re- 

 semble him in truth and moral purity, and seek to approximate more 

 and more nearly to him. 



To this we are brought by prayer, by doing good, and finally by 

 death. God's administration is tlie model of man's, both civil and do- 

 mestic. Internal dissention is worse than fire and sword, and anarchy 

 worst of all. As God observes all our actions, and rrolhing is too min- 

 ute for his inspection, we should be carefully observant of every thing 

 connected with our own deportment, or subjected to our direction. 

 Man being a ^mov v^^nrtxov^ prone to irregularities, he needs guidance 

 and control by means of legal enactments and the processes of educa- 

 tion. Legislative justice is more important than punitive, for to it is 

 committed the task of making such arrangements, suited io man's con- 

 stitution, as will open the way for the voluntary prosecution of a career, 

 which will result in the harmony — that musical pitch, which is the uni- 

 versal right and becoming. 



The study of this man, so far as he is made known to us by the 

 transmitted records of what he was and what he did, will lead to the 

 conviction that he was far in advance of his predecessors in qualifica- 

 tions for the intellectual and moral training of men. Whom, after him, 

 shall we find his equal .'' May we not think that he had a peculiar call 

 to the glorious work of instruction, and was he not, all things consid- 

 ered, most admirably fitted for it.'' He rose above the great legislator of 

 Sparta. His views of education were much more enlarged. He had 

 more deeply pondered the subject. His range of operation was much 

 more extensive, and he brought into action man's powers much more 

 extensively. As the young arc more particularly interested in our dis- 

 quisitions, they may not be unwilling to receive some facts gleaned from 



