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What were a world without Romance ? Since spoken word man's spirit stirred Beyond his belly-need, What is is Thine of fair design In thought and craft and deed [93j IDOLS Each stroke anght of toil and fight, That was and that shall be, And hope too high, wherefore we die, Has birth and worth in Thee. Especially downtrodden of men is our heritage from antiquity- Man will al- ways be the heir of all the ages. To sat- isfy him with the heritage of a recent yesterday, the modern languages and liter...atures, modern history and poetry and economics, strive in vain. He remains the child of the ages, but a child deprived of his full heritage — deprived, by a constructive inhibition in our schools, of the imaginative, moral, and historical training of the Bible, and of the inestimable riches of its literature, — deprived by delusions of Quick Returns and blind Caprice of ancient history, poetry, philosophy, the back- ground of all that is new — deprived ; 6 941 IDOLS ^ of the classics. Upon a first hand acquaintance with Greek and Latin clas- sics, the appreciation of English and of all modern literature depends.
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