What in 1815 had been only the unimportant fancy of individuals, had become a formalised demand of the people, around which the minds of men have been tossed in ascending and descending waves.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II."
Gustav Freytag
The children of the people, however, already attended Infant Schools, of which the chief feature was what Mr. Caldwell Cook calls "sit-stillery," and here the word Kindergarten, really equivalent to Nursery School, became identified with certain occupations, childlike in origin it is true, but formalised out of all recognition.
"The Child Under Eight"
E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
In each I see a man of profound religious ideals, whose system has been adopted, and then formalised and vitiated by his followers.
"Beside Still Waters"
Arthur Christopher Benson