ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the daily work of Jesuit school. The Jesuits were the inventors of 'parallel forms', a system now common in the public schools. The course lasted six years, the first four classes occupying a year each, the class of Rhetoric two years. The main object of the whole instruction was knowledge of Latin. Very different was the character of the schools of Port Royal, founded by that brilliant society of Jansenists who clustered round the monastery of Angelique Arnauld. The Jansenists set the example of making good translations. Since the time of the Jansenists the discovery of Sanskrit and its relations to Greek and Latin, of the Indian conception of grammar as opposed to the Alexandrian, the clear definition of the principal families of languages, and the relegation of Hebrew to its proper place among them, have led to the construction of a science of language which rests on fact and not on theory.
