RELATIVE VALUE OP CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC TRAINING. 917 



The argument from authority has a legitimate place in questions 

 concerning such matters as the genesis of culture and as the 

 existence of capacity and capabilities ; for in such questions neither 

 the facts themselves nor the mode of their origination can be 

 always looked upon as beyond the region of probability. But as 

 we are writing in a scientific periodical, we will begin at least with 

 something which admits of being quantitatively estimated ; and we 

 will do this by giving the time-tables of the classical [Humanu- 

 tischen) and of the modern (Real-Gymnasien) schools in Bavaria, as 

 we find them in Von Pettenkofer's address (pp. 5 and 18). 



In classical schools, out of 99 hours per week : — 



8 hours per week are given to German. 

 26 „ » Latin. 



22 „ „ Greek. 



8 „ „ French. 



(I. e. 64 hours, or 6^ per cent., are given to languages, three-fourths 

 being Latin and Greek, and one-fourth German and French.) 



1 7 hours per week are given to Mathematics. 

 10 „ „ History, 



g ,, „ Religious Instruction. 



In ' Real-Gymnasien,^ out of 11^ hours per week :— 



9 hours per week are given to German. 

 14 „ » Latin. 

 13 „ „ French. 



(I. e. 40 hours, or 33 per cent., are given to languages, of which 

 time only one-third is given to one ancient language, one-third to 

 French, the other two-thirds to German.) 



27 hours per week are given to Mathematics. 



(I.e. algebra, elementary geometry, trigonometry, descriptive and 



analytical geometry and higher analysis, taking %% per cent, of the 



whole number.) 



4 hours per week are given to History. 

 ^ ^^ ^, Natural Science and Geography. 



^ 'I "^ Drawing and ModeUing. 



g " " Eeligious Instruction. 



The 'Real-Gymnasien' are thus seen to exact 25 per cent, more 

 hours than the classical schools; and it is by this increase on the 

 one hand, coupled with a curtailment of the quota a«s,gned to 

 languages on the other, that time is found for mathematics and for 



