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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 275, 21 November 1871, Page 2

Classic Verse and Natural Science. — Shall I shock the taste of any whom I address, ,if, after having q-yritten some tbousand^G-reek and Latin, verses in my own school days, I pronounce them waste of time, and protest against them altogether ? They do not cultivate the taste, for reverent enjoyment of the beauty of an author's thoughts is excluded by the labor necessary for a feeble imitation of his: diction. They do not train the intellect, for all chance of analysing words and sentences -is lost in the necessity of wedging lifeless blocks into the form of a hexameter or lambic verse. Except in the case of those in whom the sacred faculty is innate, and whose genius would find fitter scope in exploriog the poetical resources of their own literature and language, they constitute a mere mechanical process, exercising hardly more effect on taste, refinement and imagination than the. .compilation of a Chinese, puzzle. Their elimination from our school ' system will be clear gain in itself, and will let free 1 at once a much larger time ...than is demanded fpr the prosecution of natural science. — Rev. W. Tack well at the British Association.

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