[47] This must mean the system invented by Rousseau, a modern
development of which is the Cheve system now widely used on the
Continent. In England the tonic-sol-fa notation, which uses syllables
instead of figures, but which rests fundamentally on the same
principles, is much more familiar.
[48] _"Geht und schaut, es geht ungehuer (ungeheuer)."_
[49] The miserable quarrels between Niederer and Schmid, which so
distressed the later years of Pestalozzi, are here referred to.
[50] A Consistorium in Germany is a sort of clerical council or
convocation, made up of the whole of the Established clergy of a
province, and supervising Church and school matters throughout that
province, under the control of the Ministry of Religion and Education.
No educator could establish a school or take a post in a school without
the approval of this body.
[51] That is, the education of other minds than his own; something
beyond mere school-teaching.
[52] _Einertabelle_; tables or formulas extending to units only; a
system embodied to a large extent in Sonnenschein's "ABC of Arithmetic,"
for teaching just the first elements of the art.
[53] Like other matters, this, too, has been left undone, as far as the
present (unfinished) letter is concerned.
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