...according to conscience, above all liberties. ON ERRORS IN TEACHING From the ' Treatise on Education ' THE end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive soe clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and...

...justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. . . . The end, then, of learning is to "repair the ruins...But because our understanding cannot in this body form itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible,...

...end of education. Its highest aim is character, " The end of learning is," he says, " to repairTrre ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection." Languages are to be studied in order to learn the useful things embodied in the literatures of those...

...can accept of these few observations which have flowered off, and are, as it were, the burnishing7 of many studious and contemplative years altogether...highest perfection. But because our understanding can not in this body found itself but on sensible8 things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of...

...which it might have been expected logically to lead. It led to a heightened sense of responsibility ' to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.' Such is Milton's statement of the end of learning. The Puritanic manuals of household government, (they...

...aesthetic and spiritual understanding and expression and sums it up in these words, quoting Milton : "The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins...the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue." He calls this "Arresting language, traditional expression not often heard anymore in the circles I...

...our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing...perfection. But because our understanding cannot in the body found itself but on sensible things, nor strive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things...

...the reasons which induced him to undertake the writing of the Tractate, Milton lays down : ' The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.' Vives, in his first book of the De Tradendis Disciplinis, says : ' As the end of man, what other can...

...first of which places man in relation to God, the second in relation to society. This is the first: The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. The second definition makes clear what is meant by the emphasis on virtue in the first : I call therefore...

...Poems and Major Prose, p. 631. The famous line appears in an early paragraph in "Of Education" (1644): "The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue." Later primitivistic fiction like Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (1777) recast Adam and...