reformers and the great promoters of human weal. _Immanuel Kant_ (1724-1804) If Basedow was the first great apostle of “the nature evangelism of education” in the practical world, Rousseau finds in Kant “his most illustrious disciple” among scholars. Kant was not only greatly influenced by Rousseau in his educational ideas, but even in his conceptions of morality, religion, and anthropology. Kant also put himself among the conspicuous thinkers of the age, like Goethe, Mendelssohn, Lavater, as an ardent admirer and indorser of Basedow’s _Philanthropium_, which he deemed an excellent experiment, opening a new way to the progress of educational art. But as Basedow had already modified Rousseau’s naturalistic pedagogy, so our Scotch-German philosopher, whose life was perfectly regulated by reason, also departed widely from the French Romanticist. Nay, the two are opposite in many respects. The rationalistic element is so prominently developed in Kant’s pedagogy that the Rousseauean characteristics are almost effaced. Kant learned much from Rousseau, but he was not, after all, his disciple in its true sense. The founder of that gigantic system, which is said to have determined the general course of philosophic thought of the nineteenth century, has not left us any systematic theory of education. We have only a glimpse of his educational views in his “Lecture Notes on Pedagogy,” which were collected and arranged by one of his students, Theodor Rink. The grand conception of humanity, the large view of education was worthy of this father of German idealistic philosophy, but he does not always soar in the world of these great ideas; he condescends to come down to the world of actuality and discuss the details of educational practice in a Lockean manner. His lectures exhibit a mixture of the two tendencies: English Empiricism on the one hand and German Idealism on the other, and these tendencies, we find, also characterize his whole system of philosophy. Exaltation of reason, of inner freedom, and of moral dignity run through whole pages of his lecture notes, as in all his critical writings.