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ness and muscular vigour will be the better for his 

 early rowing and cricket-playing, though he may 

 never touch bat or oar again. Impatient utili- 

 tarianism, in directing all education to immediate 

 practical ends, and in turning universities into 

 polytechnic schools, sacrifices more than it gains. 

 The example of Rawlinson, as it has been well 

 observed, proves that a soldier does not fight the 

 worse at Candahar because he has deciphered 

 cuneiform inscriptions at Ecbatana : to which it 

 may be added that Julius Caesar was not the 

 worse general because he wrote on philology even 

 in the midst of his wonderful campaigns ; that 

 men like Gladstone and Lewis are not worse, but 

 better, statesmen because of their consummate 

 classical scholarship ; and that Henry Sumner 

 Maine is not likely to prove less competent as a 

 member of the Supreme Council of India because 

 he is the author of the profoundest treatise ex- 

 tant upon legal and social archaeology. 



Lastly, the current argument against classical 

 studies, that, though imparting vigour and keen- 

 ness to the mind, they are not immediately appli- 

 cable to practical or professional purposes, is pre- 

 cisely one of the strongest arguments in their 

 favour. " In proportion as the material interests 

 of the present moment become more and more 



