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That classical studies should be the basis of intellectual teaching , he maintained from the first . “ The study of language , ” he said , “ seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ...
That classical studies should be the basis of intellectual teaching , he maintained from the first . “ The study of language , ” he said , “ seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ...
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