18 SCIENCE AND CULTURE. [LECT. 



which one man may best reach it is widely different 

 from that which is most advantageous to another. 

 Again, while scientific education is yet inchoate 

 and tentative, classical education is thoroughly well 

 organised upon the practical experience of generations 

 of teachers. So that, given ample time for learning 

 and destination for ordinary life, or for a literary 

 career, I do not think that a young Englishman in 

 search of culture can do better than follow the course 

 usually marked out for him, supplementing its de- 

 ficiencies by his own efforts. 



But for those who mean to make science their 

 serious occupation; or who intend to follow the 

 profession of medicine; or who have to enter early 

 upon the business of life ; for all these, in my opinion, 

 classical education is a mistake ; and it is for this 

 reason that I am glad to see " mere literary education 

 and instruction " shut out from the curriculum of Sir 

 Josiah Mason's College, seeing that its inclusion would 

 probably lead to the introduction of the ordinary 

 smattering of Latin and Greek. 

 , Nevertheless, I am the last person to question the 

 importance of genuine literary education, or to sup- 

 pose that intellectual culture can be complete without 

 it. An exclusively scientific training will bring about 

 a mental twist as surely as an exclusively literary 

 training. The value of the cargo does not com- 

 pensate for a ship's being out of trim ; and I should 

 be very sorry to think that the Scientific College 

 would turn out none but lop-sided men. 



There is no need, however, that such a catastrophe 



