The Classics And Modern Training a Series of Addresses Suggestive of the Value
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They have fathered the modern literatures. Humanism has given birth to educational ideas which, while they partake of the nature of their progenitor, are bound in a measure to supersede it. The change has been slowly progressing ever since Dante first set the ball rolling in Italy, and though original composition was more slow to assert itself in the North, yet there too it had taken definite literary form long before the time of Shake- speare. Since his day, we have seen the two working side b...y side, as it were, until the modern literatures have fairly outgrown the classics in magnitude at least, if not in merit ; and, within the last one hundred years, the classics have so fallen into the background in popular favour that we find them, in our own 56 Our Classical Inheritance time, hardly holding their own with the rest in well considered schemes of reading and education. Take, for example, the subject of eloquence alone, — for under this title passed most of what was best in the revived study of antiquity in Italy in the Renaissance period.
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