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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, On an old Latin text-book. (search)
me is simply this: that while we make children happy by teaching them the careful observation of nature,--so that our educated men need no longer be naturalists by accident, as Professor Owen said of those in England,--we yet should give to the same children another happiness still, by such first glimpses of literary pleasure as this book afforded. A race of exclusively scientific men and women would be as great an evil as would be a race trained only in what Sydney Smith calls the safe and elegant imbecility of classical learning. We can spare the Louvre and the Vatican, we can spare Paestum and the Pyramids, as easily as we can spare the purely literary culture from the world. And while watching the seeming death-throes of the one nation on earth which still recognizes literature as a branch of art, we need surely to make some effort to preserve the tradition of the beautiful, lest it vanish from the realm of words. Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.