"Cln&er a 2>o0woo5 wftb /iDontaigne 



allusions pretty evenly between Plato and 

 Aristotle. 



It has been frequently said that Mon- 

 taigne almost invented the modern method 

 of science study. I think that any careful 

 reader will go to the length of observing 

 that he anticipated Frobel. His philoso- 

 phy of education, reduced to its best 

 terms, means just what Frobel's does; 

 and our eloquent Colonel Ingersoll is in- 

 debted to him for the broad and enlight- 

 ened suggestion that the rod as an educator 

 is a brutal teacher. " Je n'ay veu aultre 

 effect aux verges, sinon de rendre les ames 

 plus lasches, ou plus malicieusement opini- 

 astre." (" I have seen no other effect of 

 rods than to render spirits more careless, 

 or more atrociously obstinate.") 



We are told that the late Lord Tenny- 

 son was averse to explaining his poetry, 

 but was rather glad to leave it for other 

 imaginations to read into it the utmost 

 possible riches of beauty and splendor. It 

 was Montaigne who remarked, three hun- 

 dred years ago, that " an observant reader 

 often sees more in an author's writings 

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