ABSTRACT
The ideas on education first mooted in an irregular and jesting manner by Rabelais, then developed and made current in good society by Montaigne, were popularised in England by Locke, and through him exercised a mighty influence over Europe in the Emile of Rousseau. The most convenient way of giving an account of so well known and accessible a book will be to show in what respects Locke agreed with the rest of the naturalistic school. In Mr. Quick's edition a distinguished physician shows how far Locke's advice corresponds with the best medical science of the present day. The treatise of Locke should be carefully studied by every schoolmaster, and the more so because, although by his system of philosophy he disbelieved in the existence of innate ideas, and regarded the child's mind as a piece of white paper or as wax to be moulded, yet he does not deny the existence of different inherited capacities in different individuals.
