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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