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Revelations and the Acts of the Apostles, Satan will be The whole world taken prisoner and shown in triumph. will have peace ; (there will be) one truth, one heart, one Thus will Christ's prophecy of ' one shepherd, path. This will be the true Golden one flock' be fulfilled. It will be the Sabbath of the Church, the seventh Age. period of the world, preceding the octave that will resound in happy eternity." i The last years of Komensky were principally occupied in collecting, and sometimes re-writing, his works. The enormous collection of educational books was during Komensk^'s stay at Amsterdam republished in Latin in a gigantic folio volume under the name of Opera Didactica, The collection included books such as the Didactica Magna, the Janua, and the Schola Materni Gremii (information for mother-schools) that had long before been published in the Bohemian language.^ have written with more detail on Komensky's " pansophy " in my Further study of Komensky's works on Bohemia, an Historical Research. ^
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pansophy has not given me a higher opinion of their value. ^ It may interest some readers to know the complete table of contents the enormous volume, which is divided into four parts : —
of
Part I. I. De primis occasionibus
.
.
relatio.
2.
Didactica Magna.
4. Scholse vernaculae delineatio. 6. Vestibulum. 7. Proplasma
materni gremii. primum edita.
sermonis Lat. studio uissertatio. eo censurae.
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11.
Pansophicorum
g.
Prodromus
3.
Schola
5. Janua Latinse linguae, templi Latinatis. 8. De
pansophiae.
10.
Variorum de
conatuum dilucidatio.
Part II. I. De novis
.
occasionibus.
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2. Methodus
linguarum
L. L. Janua nova.
novissima.
3.
L.
5. Lexicon Januale Latino-GermaniLatino-vernacula. 8. Quaedam cum. 7. De atrio relatio. de his doctorum judiciis, novaeque disquisitiones.
L. vestibulum. 6.
4.
Grammatica
Part III. I. De vocatione in Hungariam relatio. 3.
De
Pans,
studii
obicibus.
4.
De
2. Scholae
ingeniorum
pansophicae delineatio. cultura. 5. De libris.