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Recently there has been much said, even 

 by college men, against classical study. 

 Not an original word has been offered, 

 however, for Montaigne said everything 

 that there was to say on that side. The 

 next time that Dr. Andrews prepares a 

 paper on "practical education," let him 

 quote, with some wise evasions. Chapter 

 XXV of the first book, Montaigne's clev- 

 erly keen puncturing of academic wind- 

 bags. But here again our philosopher, 

 *' unpremeditated and haphazard," contra- 

 dicts himself by sowing Latin quotations 

 and classical allusions with the whole bag. 

 Indeed, what would be left of him were 

 his debt to Greek and Latin subtracted 

 from his literary capital? Hear him at 

 another time when in a different mood : 



" Je suis degouste de la nouvellete, 

 quelque visage qu'elle porte." (" I am dis- 

 gusted with novelty, whatever its vis- 

 age.") He stands up for old laws, old 

 customs, old books (see Book I, Chapter 

 XXH), and is a strong advocate of old-time 

 standards of action. Plutarch and Seneca 

 were his favorite authors ; but he divides 

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