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1 online resource (168 pages) |
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Contents; Note on the Translator; Translator's Prologue; Chapter 19 CONCERNING THE INITIAL STAGES OF UNIVERSAL REFORM AND ITS SUBSEQUENT PROGRESS TOWARDS SUCCESS, AND EXPLAINING WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR ITS WISE EXECUTION; Chapter 20 CONCERNING THE FIRST STAGE OF REFORM, WHICH MUST BEGIN WITHIN EACH INDIVIDUAL; Chapter 21 THE PARTICULAR REFORM OF FAMILIES; Chapter 22 THE PARTICULAR REFORM OF SCHOOLS; Chapter 23 THE PARTICULAR INTERIM REFORM OF CHURCHES; Chapter 24 POLITICAL REFORM; Chapter 25 THE WORLD ASSEMBLY OR ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, THE AUTHORITY FOR UNIVERSAL REFORM |
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Chapter 26 THE VISION OF A BETTER WORLD, OR THE BLESSED STATE OF THE WORLD WHEN THESE REFORMS ARE COMPLETEDIndex |
| Summary |
Panorthosia (Universal Reform) is the essential theme of John Amos Comenius's famous Consultation on the Reform of Human Affairs, and chapters 19-26 represent its climax. In this volume is presented the first English translation of this major work of Comenius, which was lost from about 1672 until 1934 when the Latin scholars of Czechoslovakia had it edited for publication in Prague in 1960 |
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Early works to 1800
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Education.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Early works.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847141651 |
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184714165X |
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