MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 107 



Resolution he only asked that they should leave 

 things in statu quo as far as science was concerned ; 

 but he confessed he should be glad to see a large 

 step made in a direction the opposite of that 

 recommended by the Royal Commissioners. No 

 man could be deemed properly educated unless 

 he had some acquaintance with all the great 

 departments of human knowledge. He was not 

 advocating the teaching of a smattering of those 

 different departments of knowledge, but the 

 well-grounding of students in them. . . . He did 

 not wish to discourage classics, and he maintained 

 that, even in this respect, our present system 

 was very unsatisfactory in its results ; indeed, 

 it was impossible to teach them with advantage 

 as long as other things were not taught with 

 them ; for the human mind, like the human 

 body, required a variety in its nourishment. 

 He certainly thought that too much time was 

 devoted to verses. Here were some of the lines 

 set for the boys to turn into Latin : 



Thou, midmost of our world, I narrate wonders, 



Rulest stars, lest they should wander, laws being broken. 



And again : 



The fiery steed, his tail in air proudly cocked, 



Not without much neighing, traverses glad pastures. 



Such lines would be familiar to all hon. Members 

 who had been educated at our public schools ; 

 but no man would ever be made a poet by trans- 

 lating such verses into Latin. After thanking 

 the House for the patience with which it had 

 listened to him, the hon. Baronet concluded by 

 moving his Resolution : 



