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far back as 1267, with different names 

 sometimes, they have been through all the 

 centuries essentially the same — Greek and 

 Latin authors, logic, rhetoric, grammar, 

 and the philosophies, natural, moral, and 

 metaphysical — practically the seven lib- 

 eral arts for which, as you may see by the 

 names over the doors, Bodley's building 

 provided accommodation. Why this inva- 

 riableness in an ever-turning world? One 

 of the marvels, so commonplace that it has 

 ceased to be marvellous, is the deep root- 

 ing of our civilization in the soil of Greece 

 and Rome — much of our dogmatic reli- 

 gion, practically all the philosophies, the 

 models of our literature, the ideals of our 

 democratic freedom, the fine and the tech- 

 nical arts, the fundamentals of science, and 

 the basis of our law. The Humanities bring 

 the student into contact with the master 

 minds who gave us these things — with the 

 dead who never die, with those immortal 



