ABSTRACT
IN his attempt to universalize education Comenius frequently used particular words in a universal sense. Thus he speaks of the world as the School of God's wisdom, and calls upon men 'to imitate the School of Paradise'. He proposes to make 'the whole of life a school' divided into seven stages 'for the gradual perfection of man'. The word 'man' is almost always used in a universal sense to cover 'all peoples, conditions, families, persons, never omitting anybody' and all made in the image of God. But since the Creator has put man into the school of life He has also equipped this school 'richly with books' so that the education of man might be 'a leveller road for spreading the light of Pansophy'. Thus the word 'book' is also used in a universal sense as meaning 'a copy of the eternal nature of God'. The 'first and greatest book of God is the visible world'. The second is Man himself that is to say 'the reasoning mind which is the measure of all things'. But God has given into man's hands a third book 'to serve as a commentary upon the external world and a guide to the inner world' namely the book of revelation.1
