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introduction of the ordinary smattering of Latin and 

 Greek. 



Nevertheless, I am the last person to question the im-1 

 portance of genuine literary education, or to suppose 

 that intellectual culture can be complete without it. An 

 exclusively scientific training will bring about a mental 

 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 thin!; 

 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 

 excellence. If an Englishman cannot get literary culture 

 out of his Bible, his Shakespeare, 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 suffi- 

 cient provision for literary as well as for scientific edu- 

 cation, and since artistic instruction is also contemplated, 

 it seems to me that a fairly complete culture is offered 

 to all who are willing to take advantage of it. 



But I am not sure that at this point the "practical" 

 man, scotched but not slain, may ask what all this talk 



