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The Classics in Education.

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A PAPFK READ BEFOKE THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE BY PROFESSOR CAVEN.

Within the last thirty years, two notable attempts have been made to drive the Greek and Latin authors from th» position a-signed to them, through a long lapse of centuries, in the world’s educational . sys-

Rey, ,tems., The leaders.of the earliest of these

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from seats of learning, as their tendency is to absorb energies which would be more usefully expended on other pursuits. It Li t St haem indeed to be a fear with some, that al’ O6S 06 ‘young men preparing for the struggles of life, if introduced to classical studies, would follow the evil example of that Grecian youth, who was sent to fill his pitcher at the fountain, but neglected his task, and idled away his time, plucking the wild flowers that grew on his way. It is gratifying to the patrons of solid , earning to know that the individuals who 10 per cent. Cheaper speak and write thus, are in no ways formid- able, either in numbers or ability. I may, perhaps, best illustrate the spirit and drift of this band-of antagonists, by relating to you an old and well known fable.

Once upon a time a fox prowling about in search of plunder, fell unexpectedly into a trap. The situation involved a loss of life or a loss of tail. Reynard, with a wis- dom born of necessity, preserved his life,

and jeft his brush in the iron fangs of the

Personally Selected unrelenting trap. With his life no longer >in jeopardy, our hero had leisure to esti-

mate the cost he had paid for it. There was no concealing the fact—his fair propor- tions were sadly marred. His structure had by his accident come to a somewhat abrupt finish. Symmetry was in fact des- troyed—but what remedy was there! His cunning could suggest only one. He might perauade the great family of foxes to adopt the fashion of dispensing with tails, and so

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asking us to relinquish our tails, if you still had possession of yourown, or could by any means recover it.” It is exactly thus with the great bulk of those who cry out against the study of the classics. Their tastes or their talents have never given them the slightest mastery over the magnificent literatures of these ancient times, Ail that they remember is the irksome toil with grammars and dictionaries. It bred disgust and boyish prejudices have hardened mto manly antipathies, while they themselves are surprised that anyone should deem clasvical studies productive of any good whatever. They have no tail of their own, and would fain matilate everyone who has, The preposterous selfishness of such reason: ing is its best refutation,

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ja dead language! they ask. The occupation

of students: engaged in such studies, they say, resembles that of the tamivhed doge which Byron’s Alp beheld’ gorging them- selves on the dead beneath the walls of Coriith.. It isa favorite position and one they seem to deem impregnable tu: charac- terise ;the Latin as a dead language, Yet had our oppcnents exerted themselves to acquire aceuracy, they would have found a territory lying between the esstern sphrs of the Carpathians and the waters of the Euxine, whose inhabitants in their speech still give unmistakeable evidences of their origin and perpetuate in the valley of the Daunbe the same grand old language that has made the Tiber immortal.

Again there lives in Reme at the present hour a ruler whose subjects speak every langeage and dialect of a language known throughout the universe, Unbroken com- munication is kept up with these widely spread races, and the acts and decisions which regulate discipline and invigorate government are couched in that same language, in which the Roman Senate con- veyed its instructions to the Consul in command of ita legions in Pontus, or to the Governor who exercised its autherity on the remote shores of Britain.

Again, when some years ago there as- sembled in the great Church of St. Peter’s at Rome, over eight bundred prelates from every nook and corner of the universe, the questions brought before them were all dis- cussed in that same language in which Cicero and Hortensius carried on their de- bates centuries ago; on the other side of the Tiber, below the Capitel. Nay more, shorthand writers took down the specches oi the different orators with the same ac- curacy that a reporter of the Times or Tele- graph would reproduce a speech of Glad- stone or of Bright. A language which ex- hibits such an amount of vitality as this, can never surely with any prospriety be called a dead languege.

Further it would be an easy task for any-

one moderately well versed in Latin to make his way, by its aid alone through Europe, and enjoy during his journey the pleasures of refined and learned soci ty. Philosophy and Theology in the continental universities of Europe are taught in Latin. The business of the classes is conducted in the same tongue, and if the language be seldom rigidly classical, it must always be at least grammatical. No one could possi- bly enter the Halls of these Lostitutions, and listen to the ahimated debates carried on by students and professors with a vigor and fluency that would excite wonder, and come away with the idea that Latin was dead. Look for.a moment at three great European langueges—the Italian, the French, and the Spanish—are these not beund. to the Latin by most intimate ties of kindred? The veriést tyro in languages may discover the close relationship while casting his eye over a printed page of each. So may you have observed sisters in every individual feature apparently dissimilar, yet the ex- pression, or if I may say it the atmosphere which lies over all, reveals a resemblance, which we recognise at once as dcrived from the parents. It is that species of resemb- lance, which little Paul Dombey, when dying recognised between his si:ter Florence and the lady who stood on the shore of that mysterious sea to welcome his boat, as it passed from between the green banks of the river on to the ocean, To what extent the classical element prevails in our own Enylish tongue may be gathered from the following rough estimate. “The greater part of the abstract terms in English, and words relating to religion. law, science and literature, are of Latin or Greek origin. Most words of three or more syllables are of classical origin, and a very large number of those of two syllables, the exceptions being mostly words formed by English suffixes from monosyllabic roots. Many monosyllabic words even are derived from Latin and Greek, the greater part having come to us through French,”

I think I have said enough to show yon, ladies and gentlemen, that the classics so far from being dead or even torpid are still like sturdy trunks on which are engrafted the most vigorous languages of Europe, and from which they still draw a robust strength. Notwithstanding all this, how- ever, you will often ear men, who are re- garded for the moat part as enjoying a fair share of common seuse, regretting the years they spent in the study of the classics as so muny years wasted. They will tell you in mournful numbers and with rueful countenances, that after spending a weary amount of time on the study of Greek and Latin, they now find themselves unable to construe an ordinary Latin sentence, or name with certainty the letters of the Greek alphabet. Therefore they conclude all our labor has been in vain. Lam very much inclined to think that the man who reasons thus ought to be classed with those who believe in the witty Frenchman’s definition of gratitude, as a lively anticipation of favors to come. Because a man’s knowledge of Greek and Latin has not been to him an immediate and direct source of wealth, that therefore classical studies have in his case been il! spent time, is a proposition betray- ing not only rank ingratitude but a “great deal of oe bad logic. In develop- ing and training the human mind, modern authorities recognize two great agents langnage and mathematics By means of these the mind is developed, nurtured and enlarged. Itis in fact trained so that the pursuits of science, philosophy, literature and divinity can be its occupations if so required. Surely no one will say that the studies which fit a youth for these lofty pursuits will unfit him for the ordinary business of life. His mathematics and his classics have taught him how to apply his talents with advantage—he has learned to learn all he does learn accurately and with precision, and thus equipped he enters upon the battle of life. Is it to be sup-

| posed, that the talents, with which that

young man successfully wrestled with the ‘difficulties that beset him in his mathe- ' matical and classical studies, will not enable

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