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rationally, but they will not lose their place. What will happen 
will rather be crowded into education other matters besides, far too 
many; there will be, perhaps, a period of unsettlement and con- 
fusion and false tendency ; but letters will not in the end lose their 
leading place. If they lose it for a time, they will get it back 
again. We shall be brought back to them by our wants and aspir- 
ations, And a poor humanist may possess his soul in patience, 
neither strive nor cry, admit the energy and brilliancy of the parti- 
sans of physical science, and their present favour with the public to 
be far greater than his own, and still have a happy faith that the 
nature of things works silently on behalf of the studies which he 
loves, and that, while we shall all have to acquaint ourselves with 
the great results reached by modern science, and to give ourselves 
as much training in its disciplines as we can conveniently carry, 
yet the majority of men will always require humane letters, and so 
much the more as they have the more and the greater results of 
science to relate to the need in man for conduct, and to the need in 
him for beauty.” 
There is much in these utterances of Mr. Arnold which can be 
re-echoed by the man of science. Doubtless the exclusive status 
of the humanities in the educational curriculum has been lost be- 
yond redemption; in some institutions, at least, they no longer 
take the lead, and above all, their study has been to some extent 
sanctified by scientific methods. But the enlightened chiefs of 
Science, far from denying, claim a place for the humanities parallel 
with those of their own chosen departments. What they do pro- 
pose, in response to popular clamor, is not to exclude classical 
Studies, but to leave to those students who have matured sufficiently 
to face a near future the option of a course which may be most 
useful to them in their after careers. The knowable is only less 
measurable than the unknowable, but human capacity and life are 
nite, Grecolatry and Latinolatry are sometimes obstructive. 
The physician will have less use for a profound knowledge of the 
humanities than of humanity ; the chemist or miner will doubtless 
find Greek and Latin of use, but much less than German or French — 
and still less than an elementary acquaintance with matter. The 
future merchant may be glad to bandy classical allusions with his 
customers, but a knowledge acquired, in the schools, of the objects 
ofhis trade will save much cost and labor in those years when time 
and labor are of most account. Let all be allowed to elect those 
