[Footnote 47]: This must mean the system invented by Rousseau, a modern development of which is the Chevé system now widely used on the Continent. In England the tonic-sol-fa notation, which uses syllables instead of figures, but which rests fundamentally on the same principles, is much more familiar.
[Footnote 48]: "Geht und schaut, es geht ungehür (ungeheuer)."
[Footnote 49]: The miserable quarrels between Niederer and Schmid, which so distressed the later years of Pestalozzi, are here referred to.
[Footnote 50]: A Consistorium in Germany is a sort of clerical council or convocation, made up of the whole of the Established clergy of a province, and supervising Church and school matters throughout that province, under the control of the Ministry of Religion and Education. No educator could establish a school or take a post in a school without the approval of this body.
[Footnote 51]: That is, the education of other minds than his own; something beyond mere school-teaching.
[Footnote 52]: Einertabelle; tables or formulas extending to units only; a system embodied to a large extent in Sonnenschein's "ABC of Arithmetic," for teaching just the first elements of the art.
[Footnote 53]: Like other matters, this, too, has been left undone, as far as the present (unfinished) letter is concerned.
[Footnote 54]: Erdkunde.
[Footnote 55]: Recht schreiben.
[Footnote 56]: Recht sprechen.