Youth's Magazine,  3rd ser. 10 (1837), 204.

Words and Things

Anon

Genre:

Introduction; Extract

Subjects:

Education, Utility, Agriculture, Natural History, Ancient Authorities


    The extract from an unnamed biography of John Milton reflects on Charles Symmons's characterization of Milton's educational philosophy as being based on 'an erroneous principle—"It respected things more than words!"'. Milton 'placed in the hands of boys from ten to fifteen years of age, such writers as [...] gave information on some of the departments of sciences', including 'the agricultural works of Cato, Columella, and Varro; the Medical Treatises of Cornelius Celsus; Pliny's Natural History; Vitruvius's Architecture, and the philosophical Poems of Lucretius and Manilius'. The writer disagrees with Symmons's view that this plan is flawed. The extract is introduced as being 'peculiarly interesting at the present period, when the "erroneous principle" commented on, has become so generally recognized'.



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