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Excerpt from Old Greek Education
Why must these great ends of education be obscured or lost by the modern wonders of discovery, which should make them more easy of attainment and wider in circula tion? Were the Greeks better off in education than we are, and, if so, why were they better off? Or is all this al leged Greek superiority an idle dream of the pedants, with no solid basis in facts? If it is real, can we not discover the secret of their superiority, and use it with far wider and deeper efiect in our Christian society? Or is human nature of narrow and fixed capacity, and does the addition of wide ranges of positive science and of various tongues mar ir revocably the cultivation of the pure reason and of the ms thetic faculty? These are the problems which will occupy the following pages, not in their abstract form; they will be considered in close relation to the success or failure of the old Greeks in discussing and solving them.
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