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the level of his great enterprise more effectually than certain 
modifications, on the one hand, of primary and secondary school 
education, and on the other, of the conditions which are attached 
by the Universities to the attainment of their degrees and their 
rewards. 
“We have a right to claim that science shall be put upon the 
same footing as any other great subject of instruction, that it 
shall have an equal share in the schools, an equal share in the 
recognized qualification for degrees, and in the University honors 
and rewards. 
“Tt must be recognized that science, as intellectual discipline, is 
at least as valuable, and, as knowledge, is at least as important as 
literature, and that the scientific student must no longer be 
handicapped by a linguistic (I will not call it literary) burden, the 
equivalent of which is not imposed upon his classical compeer. 
“Let me repeat that I say this, not as a depreciator of literature, 
but in the interests of literature. The reason why our young 
people are often so scandalously and lamentably deficient in 
literary knowledge, and still more in the feeling and desire for 
literary excellence, lies in the fact that they have been withheld 
from a true literary training by the pretence of it, _ too 
often passes under the name of classical instruction. * 
“Nothing is of more importance to the man of science than 
that he should appreciate the value of style, and the literary work 
of the school would be of infinite value to him if it taught him 
this one thing. But I do not believe that this is to be done by 
what is called forming one’s self on classical models, or that the 
advice to give one’s days and nights to the study of any great 
writer is of much value. 
“ Le style est Thomme méme” as a man of science who was a 
master of style has profoundly said ; and aping ae ere os 
not help one to express oneself. * nd 
** A good style is the vivid expression of clear thinking, and it 
can be attained only by those who will take infinite pains, in the 
