Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Old Humanities, and the New Science
It is the general custom of this Association to choose as its President alternately a classical schol ar and a man of wide eminence outside the classics.
Next year you are to have a man of science, a great physician who is also famous in the world of learn ing and literature. Last year you had a statesman, who, though a statesman, is also a great scholar and man of letters, a sage and counsellor in the antique mould, of world-wide fame and unique in?uence.
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