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obtainable only by a liberal education ; and a 

 liberal education is synonymous, not merely with 

 education and instruction in literature, but in one 

 particular form of literature, namely, that of 

 Greek and Koman antiquity. They hold that 

 the man who has learned Latin and Greek, 

 however little, is educated ; while he who is 

 versed in other branches of knowledge, however 

 deeply, is a more or less respectable specialist, not 

 admissible into the cultured caste. The stamp of 

 the educated man, the University degree, is not 

 for him. 



I am too well acquainted with the generous 

 catholicity of spirit, the true sympathy with 

 scientific thought, which pervades the writings 

 of our chief apostle of culture to identify him 

 with these opinions ; and yet one may cull from 

 one and another of those epistles to the Philistines, 

 which so much delight all who do not answer to 

 that name, sentences which lend them some 

 support. 



Mr. Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture 

 is " to know the best that has been thought and 

 said in the world." It is the criticism of life 

 contained in literature. That criticism regards 

 "Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual 

 purposes, one great confederation, bound to a 

 joint action and working to a common result ; and 

 whose members have, for their common outfit, 

 a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern 



