Whose  lights  are  fled,  whose  garlands  dead,
And  all  but  he  departed."

Aim  of  the  Education  of  the  Blind.
*'  The  fair  mind  in  the  fair  bodv  will  be  the  fairest  and  love-

liest  of  all  sights  to  him  who  has  the  seeing  eyes."

Plato.
Of  all  the  nations  of  antiquity  the  Greeks  occupy
the  most  prominent  position  in  the  history  of  peda-  j
gogy.  They  held  a  very  exalted  idea  of  manly
excellence,  and  aimed  at  the  attainment  of  a  high
degree  of  development.  "  To  produce  harmony
and  symmetry  and  grace  in  every  faculty  of  mind
and  body,  was  their  notion  of  education,"  says
Charles  Kingsley;  and  his  statement  is  fully  con-


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firmed  by  the  writings  of  the  two  most  mighty
philosophers  the  world  has  ever  seen.  Plato  and
Aristotle  have  thrown  into  relief  this  conception
and  urged  its  realization.  The  Athenian  law-giver,
Solon,  has  placed  physical  and  intellectual  training
upon  the  same  footing.  These  were  made  parts  of
a  whole  system,  inseparable  from  each  other.  The
children  were  required  to  attend  by  turns  the
school  for  gymnastics  and  that  for  grammar.
