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far back as 126r, with different names 

 sometimes, they have been through all the 

 centuries essentially the same Greek and 

 Latin authors, logic, rhetoric, grammar, 

 and the philosophies, natural, moral, and 

 metaphysical practically the seven lib- 

 eral arts for which, as you may see by the 

 names over the doors, Bodley's building 

 provided accommodation. Why this inva- 

 riableness in an ever-turning world? One 

 of the marvels, so commonplace that it has 

 ceased to be marvellous, is the deep root- 

 ing of our civilization in the soil of Greece 

 and Rome much of our dogmatic reli- 

 gion, practically all the philosophies, the 

 models of our literature, the ideals of our 

 democratic freedom, the fine and the tech- 

 nical arts, the fundamentals of science, and 

 the basis of our law. The Humanities bring 

 the student into contact with the master 

 minds who gave us these things with the 

 dead who never die, with those immortal 



