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654 proved that they were not, as Raumer had represented them, an order of teachers like the Jesuits They taught, indeed, in a few schools, as in that of Liège; but in most schools with which they were connected, they received boarders and looked chiefly after their moral and religious training, while the secular instruction was in the hands of other teachers, who, however, were mostly imbued with the spirit of the Brethren. See Paulsen, Geschichte des g. U., 2nd ed., vol. I, pp. 158-160, where this author modifies, in the same way, the statements expressed in the first edition of his work. Further see the recent valuable work on Jakob Wimpfeling, by Dr. Knepper (Herder, 1902), page 7.



, p. 156. – The importance of Father Saccheri's work is being recognized more and more. Professor Ricci of Padua contributed a highly interesting article to the Jahresbericht der mathematischen Verbindung (Vol. XI, October-December 1902), on the "Origin and Development of the Modern Conception of the Foundations of Geometry." There it is said that "Saccheri's works prove him a man of indisputable merit, and one of the first geometricians of his century. ... The Euclides vindicatus alone is a work which could claim the labors of a whole life. In this work he erects an edifice of classical beauty which testifies to the extraordinary ability and geometrical taste of the architect." It is a perplexing problem to modern mathematicians how Saccheri could endeavor to refute his own arguments, with which he had so ably attacked the Euclidian system. Of this attempt