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taste, and correct judgment. Every word in Latin or Greek has 

 from two to forty varieties of meaning, averaging about ten differ- 

 ent shades of thought. A beautiful sentence well translated, gives 

 constant exercise for elegance and simplicity of address, and conver- 

 sation. The conclusion of this part of the argument is this. Give 

 a student a quick perception, a ready memory and refined taste, and 

 you give him all the elements of success in practical life as a useful 

 man. 



But the last argument I now offer is still stronger in favor of 

 classical studies. And here I must be permitted to say that I by 

 no means depreciate any other branch of study, when rightly pur- 

 sued — they are all divinely suited to unfold the whole man for his 

 Godlike employment. I am merely setting forth these facts for the 

 benefit of those who depreciate the classics as dead languages. To 

 them I would state the last argument as follows. Words are the 

 wings of thought, and the faithful study of the classics furnish the 

 wings. This will appear from the fact that this daily handling of 

 such a large fund of words must give power to use them, when need- 

 ed to express thought. We think by the help of suitable words, as 

 birds move on full fledged wings. Familiarity with such a vast 

 resource of words, must, by the laws of association, be the result of 

 this study. 



Now 40,000 words of the English language are derived from the 

 Latin and about 4000 from the Greek. 



And are these your dead-languages ? Is CiNClNNATUS dead ? Is 

 the old patriot farmer dead? Is Demosthenes dead? Can you 

 kill the immortal struggle of virtue ; can you extinguish the fires 

 of their manly thought and language ? You can scarcely speak an 

 English sentence without breathing forth some classic inspiration. 

 There is a spirit and a power in classic language that can never die, 

 and fortunate is the man who has learned to draw waters from this 

 fountain. 



ARCHITECTURE— OH THE SCIENCE OF BUILDING. 



We present, as the frontispiece of the present number, our own resi- 

 dence, not as a model of taste, or of the most appropriate style of 

 buildinp:, but rather as furnishing an occasion for a few remarks on 

 the subject of Rural Architecture, and its importance in an economi- 



