Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Lecture on the Classical Learning, Delivered Before the Convention of Teachers, and Other Friends of Education, Assembled to Form the American Institute of Instruction, August, 20, 1830
IN discussing the claims of classical learhing, it is not my intention to revive the half-forgotten disputes in which the scholars of old arrayed themselves in contending parties, uh der the banners of ancient and of modern genius. The spirit Which animated those violent times, is foreign from an occa sion like the present. Thefanaticism which taught men to abuse and scorn each other for differences in literary opinion, and woman, in the person of a, fair votary of the Muses, the on Iy one of her sex Whom the French Academy has ever deign cd to eulogiz'e, to fix upon her opponent, Lamothe; because he ridiculed Homer's mythology, the gentle epithets 'cold, fiat ridiculousl impertinent, grossly ignorant, prouid and senseless, and to remind him that Alcibiades boxed the ears of a rhetori cian, because he had not Homer's Works; this absurd fenati cism, it is far from my purpose to evoke. Yet it might well be matter of surprise, that the great masters of antiquity, whose works have stood the test of two thousand years, should, at this late day, be summoned before the' tribunal of public opin ion, their merits closely scrutinized; questioned doubted, and.
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