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Excerpt from The Cambridge Classical Course: An Essay in Anticipation of Further Reform
For it cannot be said that in every relevant respect those conditions, so far/ from being peculiar, ' have remained without change since 1430. Around and about our, small collection of classical texts the scholarship of fourteen generations has built up an enormous literature. Of the most famous authors one may say that not a sentence, not a line, not a phrase, but has been again and again pondered and examined, emended by the acumen of scores among the keenest intellects of Europe, and illustrated from all the resources of laborious and gigantic erudition. The fruit of these toils has been stored in printed books and it is these books that make the difference between our conditions and the peculiar conditions of Filelfo. And yet our method, in the class of lectures I am considering, is the fifteenth century method. We still add a commentary, dealing with grammar, and with the usage of words, and with everything in the subject matter which needs to be explained or illustrated.' We carry one more cage of owls to Athens: we foist upon Newcastle one more sack of coals. Meanwhile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.