Note 103 — XII. SOME ENGLISH WRITERS BEFORE LOCKE.

It is a sign of the failure of all attempts to establish educational science in England that though the meaning of “real” and “realities” which connected them with res seemed established in the sixteen hundreds, our language soon lost it again. According to a writer in Meyer’s Conversations Lexicon (first edition) “reales” in this sense occurs first in Taubmann, 1614. Whether this is correct or not it was certainly about this time that there arose a contest between Humanismus and Realismus, a contest now at its height in the Gymnasien and Realschulen of Germany. For a discussion of it, see M. Arnold’s “Literature and Science,” referred to above (p. 154).