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of the Humanities is the greatest single gift 

 in education . To you of the elect this is pure 

 camouflage — the amateur talking to the ex- 

 perts; but there is another side upon which 

 I feel something may be said by one whose 

 best friends have been the old Humanists, 

 and whose breviary is Plutarch, or rather 

 Plutarch gallicized by Montaigne. Para- 

 phrasing Mark Twain's comment upon 

 Christian Science, the so-called Humanists 

 have not enough Science, and Science sadly 

 lacks the Humanities. This unhappy di- 

 vorce, which should never have taken place, 

 has been officially recognized in the two 

 reports edited by Sir Frederic Kenyon, 1 

 which have stirred the pool, and cannot but 

 be helpful. To have got constructive, ana- 

 bolic action from representatives of inter- 

 ests so diverse is most encouraging. While 

 all agree that neither in the public schools 



x Education, Scientific and Humane (1917), and Education, 

 Secondary and University (19 19). 



