His library is the most select and rare which I have seen,
including most of the books which we have sought with so ill success
on our side of the water." (* 1)
(* 1) The following notice of Mr. Greaves occurs in Mr.
Morgan's "Hampden in the Nineteenth Century." "The gentleman whom he
met at the school was Mr. J. P. Greaves, at that time Honorary
Secretary to the Infant School Society, and a most active and
disinterested promoter of the system. He had resided for three (?)
years with Pestalozzi, who set greater value upon right feelings and
rectitude of conduct, than upon the acquisition of languages. A
collection of highly interesting letters, addressed to this gentleman
by Pestalozzi on the subject of education, has been published. Among
the numerous advocates for various improvements, there was not one
who exceeded him in personal sacrifices to what he esteemed a duty.
At the same time he had some peculiar opinions, resembling the German
mystical and metaphysical speculations, hard to be understood, and to
which few in general are willing to listen, and still fewer to
subscribe; but his sincerity, and the kindness of his disposition
always secured for him a patient hearing.
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