(SR.)] [Footnote 6157: Hermann Niemeyer, "Beobachtungen," etc., II.,350.

"A very worthy man, professor in one of the royal colleges, said to me: 'What backward steps we have been obliged to take! How all the pleasure of teaching, all the love for our art, has been taken away from us by this constraint!'"] [Footnote 6158: Id., ibid., II.,339.--"Decree of November 15, 1811 art.
17."] [Footnote 6159: Id., ibid., II.,353.] [Footnote 6160: Hermann Niemeyer, ibid., 366, and following pages.

On the character, advantages and defects of the system, this testimony of an eye-witness is very instructive and forms an almost complete picture.
The subjects taught are reduced to Latin and mathematics; there is scarcely any Greek, and none of the modern languages, hardly a tinge of history and the natural sciences, while philology is null; that which a pupil must know of the classics is their "contents and their spirit" (Geist und Inhalt) .-- Cf.

Guizot, "Essai sur l'histoire et l'etat actuel de l'instruction publique," 1816, p.103.] [Footnote 6161: "Travels in France during the Years 1814 and 1815" (Edinburgh, 1816), vol.I., p.

152.] [Footnote 6162: "Ambroise Rendu et l'Universite de France," by E.Rendu (1861), pp.