These are some of the agencies employed by the Comenius Society in opening up an appreciation of this great man, who, “born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes, and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy, has won by his thought, as well as by his life, a universal significance. As philosopher and divine, in union with Andreæ, Dury, Milton, and others, he devoted his life to a work of peace. He placed the weal of man, as he termed it, above the respect for languages, persons, and sects; thus his energies were directed toward restraining the wrangling people, churches, and classes from the violent utterance of their differences, and leading them on the ground of early Christian views to mutual peace and forbearance. As educationalist, inspired by Bacon, he successfully asserted the claims of experimental science in the elementary schools of his time, placed the mother-tongue on the list of subjects of instruction, and included in the conception of the school the idea of physical culture. By his demand for education of all children, including girls, who till then had been neglected, he became one of the fathers of modern elementary education.” APPENDICES I. TABLE OF DATES (a) _Pertaining to the Life of Comenius_ 1592. Born at Nivnitz, Moravia, March 28th. 1604. Death of his father and mother. ——. Entered the elementary school at Strasnitz. 1608. Entered the gymnasium at Prerau. 1611. Matriculated in the college at Herborn. 1613. Matriculated in the university at Heidelberg. 1614. Appointed teacher in the Moravian school at Prerau. 1616. Ordained as a minister, April 29th. 1618. Called to the pastorate of the church at Fulneck; also superintendent of schools. 1624. Marriage to Elizabeth Cyrrill. ——. Driven into the Bohemian mountains by religious persecutions. 1627. Banished from his native country. 1628. Fled to Poland; given charge of the gymnasium at Lissa. 1632. Consecrated as a bishop, October 6th. 1641. Called to England, arriving there September 22d. 1642. Left London, June 10th, for Sweden. ——. Settled at Elbing, Prussia, in October. 1648. Returned to Lissa; death of his wife; chosen president of the council (senior bishop), of the Moravian Church. 1649. Re-married, to Elizabeth Gaiusowa. 1650. Took charge of the schools at Saros-Patak, Hungary, in May. 1654. Returned to Lissa. 1656. Lissa burned; flight to Silesia. ——. Settled in Amsterdam. 1670. Died at Amsterdam, November 15th; buried at Naärden (Holland), November 22d. (b) _Principal Writings of Comenius_ 1616. _Grammaticæ facilioris præcepta_ (Simple grammatical rules). Prague. 1617. _Listowé do nebe_ (Cries of the oppressed poor). Olmütz. 1622. _De Christina perfectione_ (On Christian perfection). Prague. 1623. _Labyrint svéta a ráj srdce, to jest_ (Labyrinth of the world and paradise of the heart). Lissa.