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stock-breeder in the midst of his straight-backed cattle, the ma- 

 chinist, the architect, are endowed with the same truth-loving, 

 beauty-seeing nature as the architect, the landscape gardener, and 

 the poet. 



And this nature finds play in a scientific course of study. The 

 unity in variety that appears in the vegetable world ; the develop- 

 ment of a few primordial forms into all the infinite diversity of 

 shrub and tree and lesser plants ; the plan of structure revealed ia 

 their comparison and classification ; the laws of growth, fructifi- 

 cation, and dissemination, — these intellectual parts are still more 

 wonderful than what appears to the eye, beautiful as may be the 

 blossoms of trees and flowering shrubs, or grand as are the mon- 

 archs of Mariposa. 



As for study for its own sake, surely literature can show no 

 more disinterested zeal than science in any of its departments. 

 See Agassiz having, in his own words, "no time to waste in 

 making money." See Faraday casting aside the certainties of 

 wealth as a practical chemist for the external poverty and rich 

 internal wealth of a life devoted to the discovery of truths of 

 science. See Linnaeus, who seemed to care for nothing but his 

 favorite science. See anywhere in the biography of scientific men 

 a devotion to science as strong. as ever bound a miser or inspired 

 a poet. The same kind of enthusiasm, which in one place I have 

 seen kindled by Greek literature, I have seen in another bestowed 

 upon anatomy, or zoology, or geology, or botany, or chemistry. 

 It doesn't hurt these studies that they are useful. We are not 

 quite to the day, but we are approaching it, when men will not 

 apologize for being useful. And now the whole division between 

 useful and useless needs revision. If music cultivates the taste, 

 bestows a refined pleasure, it is in its high way as useful as that 

 which adds an increase of flavor to the peach or grape, for the 

 less refined pleasure of the tongue. If Greek seems remote from 

 our modern needs, it is only our ignorance of its relations thereto. 

 I find, indeed, on turning to a work entitled " Classical Study, its 

 value illustrated by extracts from the writing of eminent scholars," 

 edited by Dr. Taylor of Philip Academy, that no argument for 

 the study of Greek and Latin is oftener urged than their useful- 

 ness. Yet the book was purposely made to combat the aggres- 

 sions of a scientific upon the classical courses of study. In my 

 library there stands, peacefully unconscious of inner repulsion, a 

 book compiled by Air. Youmans, entitled " The Culture Demanded 



