Reports On the Course of Instruction in Yale College volume 7
Reports On the Course of Instruction in Yale College volume 7
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Do we find that by critics of eminence, Voltaire as a poet has a higher place assigned him than Homer, or that they consider him as a model to be more carefully studied and im- itated? Or to make the inquiry more general; in order to understand the true spirit and genius of Enghsh litera- ture, — which is of the greatest practical use, the literature of France, or the literature of Greece and Rome ? The most superficial acquaintance with the principal authors in our language, is sufficient to e...xcite wonder, that such questions should be seriously asked. If the new course proposed, considered as an introduction to a knowledge of general literature, is altogether inferior to the old, and far less practical in its character, — it will be found not less deficient for the purposes of mental discipline. To acquire the knowledge of any of the modern languages of Europe, is chiefly an effort of memory. The general structure of these languages is much the same as that of our own. The few idiomatical diflferences, are made familiar with little labor; nor is there the same necessity of accurate comparison and discrimination, as in studying the classic wri- ters of Greece and Rome.
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