john4525
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net through a telescope
is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the
electric spark in the elbowoutvalues all the theories;
the taste of the nitrous oxidethe firing of an artificial
volcanoare better than volumes of chemistry.
One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it
fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
The ancient languageswith great beauty of structure
contain wonderful r [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]ins of geniuswhich drawand
always will drawcertain likeminded men—Greek men
and Roman men—in all countriesto their study; but by
a wonderful drowsiness of usage they had exacted the
study of all men. Once (say two centuries ago)Latin and
Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture
there was in Europeand the Math[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]tics had a momen-
tary importance at some era of activity in physical sci-
ence. These things became stereotyped as educationas
the manner of men is. But the Good Spirit never cared for
the collegesand though all men and boys were now drilled
in LatinGreekand Math[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]ticsit had quite left these
shells high and dry on the beachand was now creating
and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But
in a hundred high schools and collegyilai:
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