1 6 THE NEW METHOD 



With Solon, Thales, and Pythagoras, came the dawn 

 of Greek science, which culminated in Theophrastus, 

 Aristotle, Archimedes and the Athenian and Alex- 

 andrian schools. Thus, three hundred years of un- 

 paralleled progress had established in Athens, and in 

 Alexandria, the educational methods found in the best 

 schools of Europe and America at the present time. 

 In many things the noted Greek teachers all differed ; 

 but all agreed that real philosophy comes to us through 

 the diligent search after wisdom in the book of nature ; 

 and that all men ought to reflect in their lives the im- 

 age of that order and harmony by which the universe 

 is sustained and regulated. 



Theophrastus was the first scientific writer upon 

 botany and mineralogy that the world ever produced. 

 He wrote five volumes upon minerals, and ten upon 

 plants. 



Aristotle was the father of zoology. He wrote fifty 

 volumes upon the animal kingdom. Archimedes 

 and Euclid were the greatest of ancient mathema- 

 ticians, and have never been excelled. Pythagoras, 

 Apollonius, Hipparchus, and Aristarchus explained 

 the solar system as we understand it to-day. But their 

 wisdom was completely smothered in Europe by the 

 long dark ages. 



Aristotle was born B. C. 384. He was a pupil of 

 Plato for twenty years in the great school at Athens, 

 and then had charge of the same school. He soon 



