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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Translator’s Preface[v-vii]
Introduction[ix-xxii]
ChapterI.—Education in Antiquity[1-16]
ChapterII.—Education among the Greeks[17-42]
ChapterIII.—Education at Rome[43-60]
ChapterIV.—The Early Christians and the Middle Age[61-82]
ChapterV.—The Renaissance and the Theories of Education in the Sixteenth Century.—Erasmus, Rabelais, and Montaigne[83-111]
ChapterVI.—Protestantism and Primary Instruction.—Luther and Comenius[112-137]
ChapterVII.—The Teaching Congregations.—Jesuits and Jansenists[ 138-163]
ChapterVIII.—Fénelon[164-186]
ChapterIX.—The Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century.—Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke[187-211]
ChapterX.—The Education of Women in the Seventeenth Century.—Jacqueline Pascal and Madame de Maintenon[212-231]
ChapterXI.—Rollin[232-252]
ChapterXII.—Catholicism and Primary Instruction.—La Salle and the Brethren of the Christian Schools[253-278]
Chapter XIII.—Rousseau and the Émile[278-310]
ChapterXIV.—The Philosophers of the Eighteenth Century.—Condillac, Diderot, Helvetius, and Kant[311-339]
ChapterXV.—The Origin of Lay and National Education.—La Chalotais and Rolland[340-361]
ChapterXVI.—The Revolution.—Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Condorcet[362-389]
ChapterXVII.—The Convention.—Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau, Lakanal, and Daunou[390-412]
ChapterXVIII.—Pestalozzi[413-445]
ChapterXIX.—The Successors of Pestalozzi.—Frœbel and the Père Girard[446-477]
ChapterXX.—Women as Educators[478-507]
ChapterXXI.—The Theory and Practice of Education in the Nineteenth Century[508-534]
ChapterXXII.—The Science of Education.—Herbert Spencer, Alexander Bain, Channing, and Horace Mann[535-570]
Appendix[571-575]
Index[577-598]

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.