The Kingdom of Man
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But are we not justified in asserting that, for some two hundred years or more, these ' entertainments ' have been pursued in the name of the highest education and study to the exclusion of the far weightier and more necessary know- ledge of Nature ? ' This should ye have done, and yet not left the other undone, ' may justly be said to those who have conducted the education of our higher schools and universities along the pleasant lines of literature and history, to the neglect of the urgently-...needed * improve- ment of Natural Knowledge. ' Nero was probably a musician of taste and training, and it was artistic and high-class music which he played while Rome was burning : so too the studies of the past carried on at Oxford have been charming and full of beauty, whilst England has lain, and lies, in mortal peril for lack of knowledge of Nature.
NATURE'S INSURGENT SON 55 It seems to be beyond dispute that the study, firstly of Latin, and much more recently of Greek, were followed in our Universities and in grammar schools, not as educational exercises in the use of language, but as keys to unlock the store-rooms the books in which the knowledge of the ancients was contained.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But are we not justified in asserting that, for some two hundred years or more, these ' entertainments ' have been pursued in the name of the highest education and study to the exclusion of the far weightier and more necessary know- ledge of Nature ? ' This should ye have done, and yet not left the other undone, ' may justly be said to those who have conducted the education of our higher schools and universities along the pleasant lines of literature and history, to the neglect of the urgently-...needed * improve- ment of Natural Knowledge. ' Nero was probably a musician of taste and training, and it was artistic and high-class music which he played while Rome was burning : so too the studies of the past carried on at Oxford have been charming and full of beauty, whilst England has lain, and lies, in mortal peril for lack of knowledge of Nature.
NATURE'S INSURGENT SON 55 It seems to be beyond dispute that the study, firstly of Latin, and much more recently of Greek, were followed in our Universities and in grammar schools, not as educational exercises in the use of language, but as keys to unlock the store-rooms the books in which the knowledge of the ancients was contained.
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