NOTES 



THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION 



(1882) 



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The Principal Subjects of Education : an extract from 

 the essay, Science and Art in Relation to Education, this 

 discussion : " this " refers to the last sentence in the pre- 

 ceding paragraph, in which Huxley says that it will be im- 

 possible 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." Francis 

 Bacon : cf. note p. 18. 



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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." 



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" Harmony in grey " : cf. with 1. 34 in Browning's An- 

 drea del Sarto. 



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Hobbes (1588-1679): noted for his views of human na- 

 ture and of politics. According to Minto, "The merits as- 

 cribed to his style are brevity, simplicity and precision." 

 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 ad- 

 mirable ; simple, felicitous and sweetly melodious. His dia- 

 logues are sustained with great skill." Minto's Manual of 

 English Prose Literature. We have been recently fur- 

 nished 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, arid the Odyssey by the same author. 



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Locke (1G32-17Q4) : an English philosopher of great in- 



