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Page 92 - Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep, there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
Page 94 - ... who could deliberately surrender all the knowledge heaped up, for so many centuries, in the Latinity of continental Europe ? What of the minister of religion who should choose not to study the Scriptures in the original tongue, and should be content to trust his faith and his hopes, for time and for eternity, to the dimness of translations which may reflect the literal import, but rarely can reflect, with unbroken force, the beautiful spirit of the text ? Shall he, whose vocation it is "to allure...
Page 44 - Develop the idea— then give the term — cultivate language. 8. Proceed from the known to the unknown — from the particular to the general — from the concrete to the abstract — from the simple to the more difficult.
Page 94 - ... the heart with elevated sentiments ; but of its power of direct, positive, necessary instruction. Until the eighteenth century, the mass of science, in its principal branches, was deposited in the dead languages, and much of it still reposes there. To be ignorant of these languages is to shut out the lights of former times, or to examine them only through the glimmerings of inadequate translations. What should we say of the jurist who never aspired to learn the maxims of law and equity which...
Page 94 - I do but echo the universal opinion of all persons competent to pronounce on the subject, in expressing my own conviction that the language and literature of ancient Greece constitute the most efficient instrument of mental training ever enjoyed by man ; and that a familiarity with that wonderful speech, its poetry, its philosophy, its eloquence, and the history it embalms, is incomparably the most valuable of intellectual possessions.
Page 94 - What should we say of the jurist, who never aspired to learn the maxims of law and equity, which adorn the Roman codes ? What of the physician, who could deliberately surrender all the knowledge heaped up for so many centuries in the latinity of continental Europe ? What of the minister of religion, who should choose not to study the Scriptures in the original tongue, and should be content to trust his faith and his hopes, for time and for eternity, to the dimness of translations, which may reflect...
Page 98 - Latin deserve the special preeminence which has been assigned them, but that there are peculiar reasons why they should be even more thoroughly and earnestly cultivated than they have been. Our first position is, that for the years appropriated to school and college training, there is no study which is so well adapted to mental discipline as the study of language.
Page 92 - All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud, in the cause of liberty and reason, there has been her spirit in the midst of them; inspiring, encouraging, consoling; — by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, by the restless bed of Pascal, in the tribune of Mirabeau, in the cell of Galileo, on the scaffold of Sidney.
Page 80 - ... education is inseparably connected with the idea of difficulty and tediousness. They imagine that a great deal must be accomplishing, when painful efforts are being made. They find a grim satisfaction in the feeling of obstruction. So when you row a boat against the stream, you hear the water ruckling at the prow, and you feel virtue go out of you at every sweep of the oar ; and the boat is almost stationary.
Page 44 - The course of instruction covers one or two years, at the option of the student. It is intended to embrace all branches of a complete legal education, so far as is practicable within the time allotted, and to prepare students for the bar of any State in the Union, special attention, however, being given to the subjects most likely to be useful in western practice. The...