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Page 57 - I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man : But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.
Page 122 - The question is not whether the methods of the old school, long lessons by heart of grammar, of prosody, or of extracts; the Greek grammar written in the Latin tongue, long compositions and impositions backed up by the ferula and the birch-rod — whether I say, these things produced a result which was good in its way and for its day, but will they do now? Now we have reforms in teaching French and other spoken tongues, in teaching natural science, in teaching geometry, in teaching modern history....
Page 19 - ... to attain to, any religion in the deepest sense of the word, is very largely due to my Greek studies. I don't say exclusively. I don't speak of supernatural grace. I don't refer to the most cogent arguments of a metaphysical sort. It is merely a psychological fact that I would describe. In those dark hours which, I take it, all souls, Christian and pagan, have to experience, those hours of wrestling with doubt, with misgiving, with spiritual despondency, I have found no human document which has...
Page 33 - ... reformers consider that it is a crime as well as a blunder on the part of Classical teachers to neglect the opportunities provided by modern archaeological research for illuminating our subject and bringing it home to the minds and senses of our students. It is all very well to sneer at the kinematograph as something unspeakably degrading to modern society. But I know very well that if I wanted to learn how some action was really carried on I should rather see a kinematograph record than read...
Page 2 - Humanists was no doubt a great one, but we claim to have one identically similar. They called themselves Humanists, just because they wanted to benefit humanity as a whole, and not in any sectional degree. We, too, believe, and we try to convince others, that the restoration of Classical study on rational lines would be a real boon to human education all along the line and a real contribution to the most vital welfare of human society. They were certainly enthusiasts — we are nothing if not that....
Page 121 - I am perfectly clear that under modern conditions, unless we mend our ways, the game is by no means worth the candle. I do not mean that we must merely improve our methods in a superficial way, but that we must have a fundamental reform in our whole attitude. We must no longer assume that what did very well in our fathers' and grandfathers' time should do very well for us.
Page 258 - ... history from an uninteresting drudgery into a time thoroughly enjoyed and remembered through life. The advantages which spring from free and constant use of maps, relief-maps and the like, need scarcely in these days be insisted on, since they may now be regarded as generally recognized. In my opinion the attempt directly to illustrate Greek and Roman literature by works of art and antiquities, even when made by trained archaeologists, can never come to very much. It may sometimes be useful,...
Page 26 - ... orbits. Now Copernicus tells us in his own writing that he derived this idea directly from the Greeks ; it was in fact known to them as the Pythagorean theory, and, though not commonly believed in ancient times, it had been distinctly upheld by several Greek philosophers. It is true that the ancients had not strictly proved this theory, but then Copernicus did not either, though no doubt he argued in favour of it.
Page 20 - I can only name one Christian book, outside the canon of inspiration, whose human appeal can compete with that of Plato, I mean the Confessions of St. Augustine ; but then the Bishop of Hippo was himself a close student of Plato. I do not say merely that he is tinged with Platonic feeling ; I would rather describe him as a pure exponent of Platonism, of course run into a Christian mould.
Page 84 - One, obligarchy the Rule of the Few, and democracy the Rule of the Many — so ran the classification twentyfive hundred years ago.