ON fHK STUDY OF LATIN §t 



modern composers might he found in the aiScient authors. Pity bift 

 some precious relic of " Airs and Canzonets, by Orpheus/* could be 

 dug up ; the stones might then once more be set a leaping, and we 

 might hear such music as the ancients heard. The compositions of 

 Gibbons, Bach, Handel, and Mozart, would then sink into insigni- 

 ficance ; nay, it is much to be doubted whether they would ever be 

 thought of more ! I must now, however, hasten to the conclusion 

 of this article. 



In perusing these remarks, the reader must not look to the signa- 

 ture, and exclaim " Oh ! it is written by nobody" but must weigh 

 every argument for himself, rejecting those which he considers, on 

 mature consideration, to be erroneous. To suppose that only what 

 is written by a well-known character is worth attending to, argues 

 but a small development of the organ of causality in him who holds 

 such an opinion : it is not the name of the writer, but the truth or 

 falsity of his arguments, that should be considered. Seeing that I 

 am a Phrenologist, — from one of my former papers in this Journal 

 —and that I am against making Latin and Greek the most impor- 

 lant part of education, it may be supposed I advocate that science 

 because it is new (comparatively speaking), and object to the acqui- 

 sition of the dead languages because it is old; I would ask those who 

 are of this opinion to investigate impartially the merits of my argu- 

 ments, and should any of them be found defective, I shall be most 

 happy to answer such objections as may be brought against them, 

 through the medium of The Analysis whose pages would readily be 

 opened, by its philosophic Editor, to all discussions on Science, Lite- 

 rature and the Fine Arts, provided they were perfectly free from acri- 

 mony and personal abuse, — which can only be resorted to when every' 

 other resource fails. In conclusion, I merely refer my readers, fof 

 firrther observations on this subject, to the Phrenological Journaly 

 —an invaluable quarterly periodical — in many parts of which they 

 will find this subject ably discussed, and to the works of Mr. Combe,** 

 who, being himself a classical scholar, and etigaged in one of th^ 



* "System of Phrenology,*' "Elements of Phrenology," ** The ConaU- 

 ttttfon of Man," " Outlines of Phrenology," &c., &c. 



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