Note 107 — Chapter VI · PROTESTANTISM AND PRIMARY INSTRUCTION. LUTHER AND COMENIUS.

There is a misleading fallacy in all such illustrations. What analogy is there between the learning of history or geology and the learning of a trade like carpentry? Should a physician and a blacksmith be educated on the same plan? In every case knowledge should precede practice; and the liberal arts are best learned by first learning their correlative sciences. (P.)