[20] In a letter to Governor Winthrop of Connecticut, Hartlib laments that Comenius should continually allow himself to be diverted from his pansophic works.
[21] The correspondence between Comenius and Oxenstiern over the treaty of Westphalia is given by Gindely, Über des Comenius Leben und Wirksamkeit in der Fremde. Vienna, 1855.
[22] For a full account of these labors see Gindely’s Geschichte der Böhmischen Brüder. Prague, 1857–8.
[23] Magnalia Christi Americana, or the ecclesiastical history of New England. By the Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather and Pastor of the North Church in Boston, New England. London, 1702. Book IV, p. 128.
[24] The history of Harvard university. By Josiah Quincy. Boston, 1840. 2 vols.
[25] Correspondence of Hartlib, Haak, Oldenburg, and others of the founders of the Royal Society with Governor Winthrop of Connecticut, 1661–1672. With an introduction and notes by Robert C. Winthrop. Boston, 1878.
[26] For further discussion of the question see my article, “Was Comenius called to the presidency of Harvard?” in the Educational Review, November, 1896, Vol. XII, pp. 378–382, and the article by Mr. James H. Blodgett in the same Review for November, 1898, Vol. XVI, pp. 390–393; also the closing chapter in Professor Hanus’ Educational aims and educational values (New York, 1899), pp. 206–211.
[27] For an excellent discussion of the meaning of infancy see Professor John Fiske’s Excursions of an evolutionist (Boston, 1896), pp. 306–319, and Professor Nicholas Murray Butler’s Meaning of education (New York, 1898), pp. 3–34.
[28] Permanent influence of Comenius, Educational Review, March, 1892. Vol. III, pp. 226–236.
[29] The Orbis pictus, the first child’s picture-book, was subsequently prepared to meet this need.