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Credit: On state medicine in Great Britain and Ireland / by Henry W. Rumsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![educational appliances are wanted. They are independent of tliem ; they find their mental food by processes unknown and nnimagined by common men. But for others, what the oldest moralist says of virtue is true equally of intellectual excellence:— TTjS 5' apexes 'i8pS>Ta deal irpowApoiBev id-qKav dOdvaroi' fiaKpos Be Kal opBios otp.os es avrrji' Kal Tprixi>s TOTrpwrov eTTijv S els a,Kpov 'iKr]Tai, pTj'CBLi] Si) iirevra iriXei, xaXeTnj xep eovaa. The general conclusion, therefore, to which we come, is that in classical study we are educated through the active exertion of our understanding, combined with our capacity of receiving impressions, and the spontaneous awakening of our ideas. Our aim must be to unite these modes of in- tellectual progress, to make the interpretation of the classical authors a process of steady continuous exertion, and at the same time to find in them a source of literary impulse, and materials for etliical and political reflection. The active exertion of mastering the difficulties of the language ought gradually to give place to another and higher kind of active exertion,—that of reducing into order and giving shape to the materials for thought which come to us through the influence of ancient literature on our imagination, and through the expansion of our ethical and political sympa- thies. Thus the study of ancient literature rises into the study of the philosophy of history and of human life. The actual work of the class will consist (1.) of our reading togetlier parts of two or three of the great Eoman authors ; (2.) of lectures and discussions founded on the autliors read, and the subjects suggested by them; (3.) of exercises and written examinations. I wish, as I said before, to make the work of this class bear on the study for graduation with honours. I have selected, accordingly, as the subjects for our winter's reading, the first six books of the Annals of Tacitus, and the first, tliird, and fifth books of Lucretius. Part of these books will be read and critically examined in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21952838_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
