14 SCIENCE AND CULTURE. 



scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclu- 

 sively literary education.^ 



I need hardly point out to you that these opinions, 

 especially the later, are diametrically opposed to those 

 of the great majority of educated Englishmen, influenced 

 as they are by school and university traditions. In their 

 belief, culture is obtainable only by a liberal education ; 

 and a liberal education is synonymous, not merely with 

 education and instruction in literature, but in one par- 

 ticular form of literature, namely, that of Greek and 

 Roman 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 catho- 

 licity of spirit, the true sympathy with scientific thought, 

 which pervades the writings of our chief apostle of cul- 

 ture 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 an- 

 swer to that name, sentences which lend them some sup- 

 port. 



Mr. Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is 



I "to know the best that has been thought and said in 



*/ the world." It is the criticism of Jife contained in 



literature. That criticism regards "Europe as being, 



for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great con- 



