“When you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.”—Lord Chesterfield.
[THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION.]
By W. T. HARRIS.
IV.—PERSIA.
In sketching the history of education, I am careful not to limit my consideration to the school. The most important interest to us is a discussion of the new ideas contributed to civilization—the ideas that have come down to our own time, and that have exercised an influence on all the great national movements that have appeared on the surface of history. The true view of history looks upon it as a process by which Divine Providence educates the race. He unfolds something to each people, and does not let that revelation vanish again from earth, but causes its transmission to other nations, often by dark and mysterious providences:
“One accent of the Holy Ghost
This heedless world hath never lost.”