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Nevertheless, I am the last person to question the 

 importance of genuine literary education, or to suppose 

 that intellectual culture can be complete without it. An 

 exclusively scientific trainij 



twist as surely as an exclusively literary training. The 

 value of the cargo does not compensate 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 

 should happen. Instruction in English, French, and 

 German is provided, and thus the three greatest litera- 

 tures of the modern world are made accessible to the 

 student. 



French and German, and especially the latter lan- 

 guage, are absolutely indispensable to those who desire 

 full knowledge in any department of science. But even 

 supposing that the knowledge of these languages ac- 

 quired is not more than sufficient for purely scientific 

 purposes, every Englishman has, in his native tongue, an 

 almost perfect instrument of literary expression ; and, in 

 his own literature, models of every kind of literary ex- 

 cellence. If an Englishman cannot get literary culture 

 out of his Bible, his Shakspeare, his Milton, neither, in 

 my belief, will the profoundest study of Homer and 

 Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, give it to him. 



Thus, since the constitution of the College makes 

 sufficient provision for literary as well as for scientific 

 education, and since artistic instruction is also contem- 



