Excerpt from The Classics and Modern Training: A Series of Addresses Suggestive of the Value of Classical Studies to Education
This series of addresses is published in the hope of interesting the general reader in a few matters connected with the study of Greek and Latin, and if possible to call attention to the value of the ancient languages and literatures to education; for in these days of strenuous exertion in many fields of utilitarian importance the popular interest in antiquity seems to be more theoretical than real, if indeed it be not actually negative. The papers are mere sketches. Scholars will find in them much to criticise. But at their hands indulgence is asked, inasmuch as the aim of the little book is to reach only that portion of the community, whose patience is of necessity limited, and in whose eyes the detail of scientific accuracy is frequently unwelcome. If the casual observer shall be moved, through the perusal of what is here presented, to devote any part of his time or influence to upholding the interests of a cause that is without doubt a losing one just at the present time, this slight effort will not have been wholly fruitless.
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