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lives "not of now nor of yesterday, but 

 which always were." 



As true to-day as in the fifth century 

 B.C. the name of Hellas stands no longer 

 for the name of a race, but as the name 

 of knowledge ; or, as more tersely put by 

 Maine, ' * Except the blind forces of Nature, 

 nothing moves [intellectually, he means] 

 in this world that is not Greek in origin." 

 Man's anabasis from the old priest-ridden 

 civilizations of the East began when ' ' the 

 light of reason lighted up all things," with 

 which saying Anaxagoras expressed our 

 modern outlook on life. 



The Humanities have been a subject of 

 criticism in two directions. Their over- 

 whelming prominence, it is claimed, pre~ 

 vents the development of learning in other 

 and more useful directions ; and the method 

 of teaching is said to be antiquated and out 

 of touch with the present needs. They con- 

 trol the academic life of Oxford . An analysis 



