Capitolo 70
mental pabulum they would replace for those characteristic and grotesque
survivals of the Centuries Ax, you find what they wants instead it is--modern
languages. The idea that language of some kind doesn't form necessary element
in a liberal education you/he/she is not also happened never to them. They pick up Them him for
granted that when you goes feeding as boys on straw and oats you owe
provide them instead with hay and sawdust.
Not that I get mad against the Greek and Latin as this way. It is well us we owe
has many experts among us who understand them in the moment in which he is well,
we should have experts in Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit. I mean only
what they is not the sum and substance of instructive method. They is
to better but two languages of the considerable importance to the student of
purely the human evolution.
Besides, also these that linguistic subjects and comparatively useless they were able
they is taught better far by sight that feeling. A week in Rome
it would give to Your boy I mediate a clearer idea of the relationships of the
Capitol with the Palatine one that all the beautiful maps in the Dr. William
The Small one of Classical Smith Dizionario. It would also give him a sense of
the reality of the Latin language and the Latin literature that him
you/he/she could never choose on out of a dog-eared Livy or a thumb-marked AEneid. You
has to only look I cross from the top of the Janiculum toward the,
House Bianca of Frascati, to learn an enormous quantity more on the Alban
hills and the place of Tusculum that you could ever work hard above from all the
geography books in the British Museum. The way of learning every subject on
earth, to book-know equal included, it is not alone out of books, but from actual
observation.
And still it is impossible for some one among us to do otherwise that
you accept without protesting this vicious circle. Because? Only because any men are able
dissociate completely from the social organism of which him form a
component's member. He cans anybody more face so that the eye can dissociate