7. The doctrine of consequences which underlies Mr. Spencer’s system of moral education is applicable to but a limited number of cases, or, if applied with thoroughness, is inhuman. Not even all the fit would survive if they were not shielded from the consequences of their acts by human sympathy and oversight.]
FOOTNOTES:
[277] J. P. Richter, better known under the name Jean Paul (1763-1825), the author of a spirited and scholarly book, Levana, or the Doctrine of Education, 1803.
[278] See The Elements of Psychology, on the Principles of Beneke (London, 1871).
[279] The first French translation appeared in 1878.
[280] In this, as in several other instances, Monsieur Compayré gives a summary of the author’s thought rather than an exact quotation. (P.)
[281] As, historically, ornament precedes dress, on Mr. Spencer’s main principle, it need not be till late in life that women dress sensibly. Or ought not the genesis of dress in the individual to follow the same order as the genesis of dress in the race? (P.)
[282] Introduction to Social Science, p. 390.
[283] So far as experience can testify, this is a pure assumption. The most trifling injuries are often the most painful, and the most serious the most painless. (P.)
[284] See the Esprit de discipline dans l’éducation, a memoir of Gréard, published in the Revue Pédagogique, 1883, No. 11.