XLVI. 



THE EELATIVE VALUE OF CLASSICAL AND 

 SCIENTIFIC TRAINING : 



BEING A BEVIEW OF DK. MAX V. PETTENKOFER'S WORK ' WODURCH 



die humanistischen gymnasien fur die universitat ver- 

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The German-reading" public can possess itself at a very trifling 

 cost of a very weighty opinion as to the relative value of classical 

 and of scientific training, by the purchase of an address delivered 

 last December, in Munich, by Professor Max von Pettenkofer, in his 

 capacity of Rector or Chancellor of the University for the time 

 being. There is in existence an English document (we fear we 

 cannot speak of it as a puhlication) in the shape of a report, laid 

 before the authorities of the Owens College, Manchester, which has 

 appended to it a name nearly, or quite, as familiar to the student 

 and readers of 'Nature' as Pettenkofer 's — viz. that of Professor 

 Roscoe, and in which the same process of ' ponderation ' is applied 

 to the classical ' Gymnasia ' and the modern * Real-Gymnasien ' 

 severally. Von Pettenkofer, who is not referred to in that report, 

 shall here speak for himself, and we may say at once, that after 

 stating more or less fully the objections which are ordinarily urged 

 against the classical system, he declares himself an adherent of the 

 party which stands sujoer antiquas vias. The two delegates of the 

 Owens College appear to incline in the same direction somewhat, 

 but are more eclectic and more careful in balancing their utterances 

 as to the possibility of combining the two systems than either 

 Von Pettenkofer, whom we shall forthwith cite on the one, or than 

 Helmholtz, whom they cite on the other side. 



