The Progress of Classical Learning During the Present Century

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Excerpt from The Progress of Classical Learning During the Present Century: A Lecture Delivered as an Installation-Address in the Convocation Hall of Queen's University, Kingston, on Oct, 16, 1867, Being University Day Having been elected to the chair of Classical Literature in this Institution, I desire to acknowledge my sense of the honour thus conferred upon me - an honour, heightened by the circumstance that this University, to whose Professorial staff I have been appointed, is my Alma Mater. This circumstance, while it yields honour, entails responsibility. May it be my suc cessful attainment, as it shall ever be my strenuous endeavour, to advance the useful ness and increase the fame of this seat of learning, to which I owe so much - ~to fill with lustre to the College and profit to her Students the Department entrusted to me, which has been so ably presided over since the foundation of the College! Custom requires that I should deliver an Inaugural Address. The subject which I liave'chosen, as appropriate to the occasion, is the Pro gress of Classical Learning during the pre sent Century. This progress has been varied, widely extended, steadily maintained. There un fortunately prevails an opinion which claims numerous adherents, that Classical learning is a stereotyped study. Such per sons imagine that, because Greek and Latin are dead languages, our fathers knew about taem as much as we can possibly know - that no additional light can be thrown upon their origin, structure, his tory, and connections - that 'their deepest mysteries have already been explored and their darkest recesses have been fully dis closed - that the subjects which engaged the attention of a class in this Department at the close of last centuryremain still the same, without addition 'to their number. 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.