Note E11 — Chapter XVIII · AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.

“Fortunately the past never completely dies for man. Many may forget it, but he always preserves it within him. For, take him at any epoch, and he is the product, the epitome, of all the earlier epochs. Let him look into his own soul, and he can find and distinguish these different epochs by what each of them has left within him.”—“The Ancient City,” p. 13. By Fustel De Coulanges. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1882.

[E12] “In fact, memory comes from interest. What children are deeply interested in they will never forget. A boy who can never say his lesson by heart will remember every detail of the cricket or football matches in which his heart really lives.”—“Educational Theories,” p. 116. By Oscar Browning, M.A. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.