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danger of indigestion. By a fiction as rem e as any to be 
found in law, what has once been published, even though-it be in 
the Russian language, is usually spoken of n’ and it is 
often forgotten that the rediscovery in the library may be a more 
te law, 
sedes much that had previously been a burden on the memory, 
and by introducing order and coherence facilitates the retention 
of the remainder in an available form. ... . rocesses are 
thus at work side by side, the reception of new material and the 
digestion and assimilation of the old..... The work which 
Ones pointed out. in, referring’ to educational systems, 
Lord Rayleigh says: “ From the general spread of a m cien- 
tific education we a arranted in expecting important results. 
are never touched by merely literary studies. save these 
from intellectual stagnation during several important years of 
their lives is something gained; but the thorough going advo- 
cates of scientific education aim at much more. To them it 
appears strange and almost monstrous that the dead languages. 
Should hold the place they do in general education; and it can 
ruth; and the defenders of the existing system usually take 
their stand upon the excellence of its discipline. From this point 
of view there is something to be said. The laziest boy must 
Which I admit they rarely are at present, would go far to replace 
Latin and Greek from a disciplinary point of view, while the 
meomparably greater. In half the time usually devoted without. 
Success to the classical languages, most boys could acquire a. 
teally serviceable knowledge of Preah and German.” | ‘ 
Professor Sir Wm. Thomson, President of the Physical Section. 
