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things must have been the greatest idiots the 

 world ever saw. And 't means, finally, that after 

 a dozen years spent &,t this kind of work, the 

 sufferer shall be incomoetent to interpret a pas- 

 sage in an author he has not already got up ; that 

 he shall loathe the sight of a Greek or Latin 

 book ; and that he shall never open, or think of, a 

 classical writer again, until, wonderful to relate, 

 he insists upon submitting his sons to the same 

 process. 



These be jrour gods, O Israel ! For the sake of 

 this net resultT~(and respectability) the British 

 father denies his children all the knowledge they 

 miorht turn to account, in life, not merely for the 

 achievement of vulgar success, but forguidance in 

 the grjgat crises of human existence. This is the 

 jstone he offers to those whom he is bound by the 

 strongest and tenderest ties to feed with bread. 



If primary and secondary education are in this 

 unsatisfactory state, what is to be said to the 

 universities ? This is an awful subject, and one I 

 almost fear to touch with my unhallowed hands ; 

 but I can tell you what those say who have 

 authority to speak. 



The Rector of Lincoln College, in his lately 

 published valuable " Suggestions for Academical 

 Organisation with especial reference to Oxford/' 

 tells us (p. 127) : 



" The colleges were, in their origin, endow- 



