IV AND WHERE TO FIND IT IQl 



who believed such things must have been the 

 greatest idiots the world ever saw. And it means, 

 finally, that after a dozen years spent at this kind 

 of work, the sufferer shall be incompetent to in- 

 terpret a passage in an author he has not already 

 got up; that he shall loathe the sight of a Greek 

 or Latin book; and that he shall never open, or 

 think of, a classical writer again, until, wonderful 

 to relate, he insists upon submitting his sons to 

 the same process. 



These be your gods, Israel! For the sake 

 of this net result (and respectability) the British 

 father denies his children all the knowledge they 

 might turn to account in life, not merely for tlie 

 achievement of vulgar success, but for guidance in 

 the great crises of human existence. This is the 

 stone he offers to those whom he is bound by the 

 strongest and tenderest ties to feed with bread. 



If primary and secondary education are in this 

 unsatisfactory state, what is to be said to the uni- 

 versities? This is an awful subject, and one I al- 

 most fear to touch with my unhallowed hands; 

 but I can tell you what those say who have au- 

 thority to speak. 



The Eector of Lincoln College, in his lately 

 published valuable " Suggestions for Academical 

 Organisation with especial reference to Oxford," 

 tells us (p. 127):— 



"The colle2;es were, in their origin, endow- 



