[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.

[54] Erdkunde.

[55] Recht schreiben.

[56] Recht sprechen.

[57] One of Arndt’s pamphlets, then quite new.

[58] 1827.

[59] He would have refused to countenance Froebel’s throwing up his engagement.

[60] Georg Friedrich Seller (1733-1807), a Bavarian by birth, became a highly-esteemed clergyman in Coburg.  He wrote on religious and moral subjects, and those amongst the list of his works, the most likely to be alluded to by Froebel, are “A Bible for Teachers,” “Methods of Religious Teaching for Schools,” “Religious Culture for the Young,” etc.

[61] Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825).  No doubt the celebrated “Levana,” Richter’s educational masterpiece, which was published in this same year, 1807, is here alluded to.

[62] 1808.

[63] This is in 1827.  But the expression of his thought remained a difficult matter with Froebel to the end of his life, a drawback to which many of his friends have borne witness; for instance, Madame von Marenholtz-Buelow.

[64] Probably done with the point of a knitting needle, etc.  The design is then visible on the other side of the paper in an embossed form.

[65] This account is dated 1827, it is always necessary to remember.

[66] After all, the work was left to Froebel himself to do.  These words were written in 1827.  The “Menschen Erziehung” of Froebel ("Education of Man"), which appeared the year before, had also touched upon the subject.  It was further developed in his “Mutter und Koselieder” ("Mother’s Songs and Games"), in which his first wife assisted him.  That appeared in 1838.  In the same year was also founded the Sonntags-Blatt (Sunday Journal), to which many essays and articles on this subject were contributed by Froebel.  The third volume ("Paedagogik”) of Dr. Wichard Lange’s complete edition of Froebel’s works is largely made up of these Sonntags-Blatt articles.  The whole Kindergarten system rests mainly on this higher view of children’s play.

[67] A report that Froebel drew up for the Princess Regent of Rudolstadt in 1809, giving a voluminous account of the theory and practice pursued at Yverdon (Wichard’s “Froebel,” vol. i., p. 154).

[68] The castle of Yverdon, an old feudal stronghold, which Pestalozzi had received from the municipality of that town in 1804, to enable him to establish a school and work out his educational system there.