On History And the Study of History. Three Lectures
On History And the Study of History. Three Lectures
Atkinson, W. P. (William Parsons), 1820-1890
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intellect of Europe was roused from the sleep of the Middle Ages ; but to attempt to base all higher education any longer upon their study is as idle as it would be to try to revive the scholastic philosophy, or to make the Romish Church the religious exponent of modern civilization. The world's intellectual atmosphere has changed.^ ^ The true secret of this desperate clinging to an obsolete form of education is often, as it seems to me, sectarian jealousy of mod- ern physical science. I say se...ctarian, not religious, because there is no real antagonism between true science and true religion, though much between true science and obsolete creeds. It is curious to see how completely classical education, which was the radicalism of the Renaissance, has taken the place of the old scholastic philosophy which it superseded, as the modern strong- hold of conservatism. " There is a new language, my children," said a monkish preacher of the fifteenth century, " called Greek. I bid you beware of it.
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