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specialist has to keep up as well as he can. 

 Now it is eternally creditable to a student to 

 ascertain by his own careful research precisely, 

 ^ let us say, how many times KaC occurs in 

 Thucydides. He has gone through an exer- 

 cise which could hardly be bettered by a tread- 

 mill, and at least he has read his Thucydides. 

 But there is very little mental or moral ele- 

 vation to be gained from acquiring from some 

 one else's labors the result of those investiga- 

 tions in a tabulated form. The important 

 thing is that as large a number as possible of 

 intelligent men should be trained in the class- 

 ics; but they will not begin to do this if they 

 are to be forced into a specialism which is un- 

 congenial to them, and because it is uncon- 

 genial, and, for them, leads to nothing, will 

 never be of any profit. It is well that uni- 

 versities should insist on teaching what the 

 world calls useless; but there are different 

 kinds of inutility, some profitable and some 

 not. 



However the classics may be popularized 

 for cultured circles in the world, in universities 

 and schools they are, I think, endangered by 



