This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...deny that true and high culture is within reach of him who rightly studies the English language alone, knowing naught of any other. More of the fruits of knowledge are deposited in it and in its literature than one man can make his own. History affords at least one illustrious example, within our own near view, of a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...deny that true and high culture is within reach of him who rightly studies the English language alone, knowing naught of any other. More of the fruits of knowledge are deposited in it and in its literature than one man can make his own. History affords at least one illustrious example, within our own near view, of a people that has risen to the loftiest pinnacle of culture with no aid from linguistic or philological study: It is the Greek people. The elements, the undeveloped germs of the Greek civilization, did indeed come from foreign sources; but they did not come through literature; they were gained by personal intercourse. To the true Greek, from the beginning to the end of Grecian history, every tongue save his own was barbarous, and unworthy of his attention; he learned such, if he learned them at all, only for the simplest and most practical ends of communication with their speakers. No trace of Latin, or Hebrew, or Egyptian, or Assyrian, or Sanskrit, or Chinese, was to be found in the curriculum of the Athenian student, though dim intimations of valuable knowledge reached by some of those nations, of noble works produced by them, had reached his ear. What the ancient Greek could do, let it not be said that the modern speaker of English, with a tongue into which have been poured the treasures of all literature and science, from every part of the world, and from times far beyond the dawn of Grecian history, cannot accomplish."--W. D. Whitney; Language and Education, N. A. Rev., vol. 113, p. 361. French or Spanish, where permissible, is to be used only as a means to this end, and not to acquire a German or French or Spanish education. This view is emphasized in the Wisconsin school code in the comment on the section permitting the teaching of any...
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