LATIN.
"Why is Lfttln taught, and why do <he wisest people want to leave it out P.";.'. [This double-barrelled question was arfJcted ;»nd answered by Dr Truby Kl'iig .recently, in an address to tha women's .meeting ,in the Y.M.C'.A. at 'Christehweh. He said that .Latin was ■taught in the Miiddilc Ages because it was the one language iby which tho isdiolars of the day could get back to a p.nst civilisation which was greater than that of their own time. Hundreds. <>f yea.rs of darkness and medJaevaßmi fdHowed *he advanced civilisation of did Rome, but about tho fera cf E;:/.a'bcfch, the light- .began to dawn again. Then the learned men •looked to the language which contained /the records of the old civilisation. Tho position to-day wa'a essentially different. Our dv.'K'sation liiid reached a iimich higher .standard than that of Rome, and there were translations of the old .records and books. The very purpose which had inspired meilaaeral scholars to go 'back did not now exist, so why waste human energy and time on what was of n'o practical use in modern life?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10679, 27 July 1912, Page 4
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182LATIN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10679, 27 July 1912, Page 4
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