THE PRESENT POSITION OF 



CLASSICAL STUDIES 



IN ENGLAND 



BY A. D. GODLEY 



The moral of the recent history of classical 

 study in England seems to be that disestab- 

 lishment whatever we may think of it in the 

 political world is not always and everywhere 

 bad for the disestablished. It may at times 

 serve as a salutary tonic. Certainly one may 

 say that the modern development of interest 

 in classical literature dates from about the 

 period the sixties of the last century when 

 writers on liberal education proposed to de- 

 throne Latin and Greek from the educational 

 supremacy which they then held, and to sub- 

 stitute the study of modern subjects, more 

 especially natural science. The volume called 

 "Essays on a Liberal Education," is probably 

 not much read now, and there is no great 

 reason why it should be read, for our present 



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