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184 The Century of the Child
back, think we see a futile Renaissance, then
as now the . spring flowers came up amid
the decaying foliage. At this period there
came a demand for the remodelling of educa-
tion through the great figure of modern
times, Montaigne, that skeptic who had so
deep a reverence for reahties. In his
Essays, in his Letters to the Countess of
GursoUy are found all of the elements for the
education of the future. About the great
German and Swiss specialists in pedagogy and
psychology, Comenius, Basedow, Pestalozzi,
Salzmann, Froebel, Herbart, I do not need
to speak. I will only mention that the great-
est men of Germany, Lessing, Herder,
Goethe, Kant and others, took the side of
natural training. In regard to England it is
well known that John Locke in his Thoughts
on Education, was a worthy predecessor of
Herbert Spencer, whose book on education in
its intellectual, moral, and phj^sical relations,
was the most noteworthy book on education
in the last century.
It has been noted that Spencer in educa-
tional theory is indebted to Rousseau; and
that in many cases, he has only said what the
great German authorities, whom he certainly
did not know, said before him. But this does
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