Address Before the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, Appointed ...
Address Before the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, Appointed ...
Sir Daniel Wilson, J. K. Edwards
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S inson is the representative, should abjure this pamphlet, for i is a tissue of the most absurd and extravagant contradictions and blunicring misstatements ever put together in the same number of pages. NOVEL TEACHINGS OF HISTTORYI It has been stated in evidence that my own chair of history is useless, and Dr. Byerson has specially aasigned as a reason, timt htaUitf li taught in the Grammar Schools: A singular idea indeed, the Doctor must hare cf a Uni- versity course of study, if, because a b...oy learns by rote certain thin^ in a Grammar School, a Professor of University can have no- thing more to te icb him t But I find in tMs same pamphlet a passage which rematkably co- incides with this brilliant idea of the functions of a Professor of History, whoever its author may have been. ** History teaches us," says this erudite commentator on the duties of its professor,—*' histoiy teaches us that just in proportion as Greece and Rome lavished th^ resources upon stone and marble, upon the ma- terial and inanimate, they declined in the in- tellectual and moral," and that, therefore, be- cause an architectural collegiate edifice \ua been reared for the University of Toronto, the day of her intellectual and moral rain is at hand !
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