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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics: Also of Modern Latinists, and of Works Upon Classical Philology, Greek and Roman Archaeology, and History Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, and Spaniards, are of course primarily interested in the study of their own languages and literatures; but no educated man in Christendom will hesitate to declare that the study of Greek and Latin is of the next importance. It is hardly worth while to discuss the views Of the people who - especially in England - seek to decry the educational value of the classics, and who would dismiss them from the place of honour in our schools. All modern literatures, like a great many modern institutions, are framed upon a Greek or greeco-roman plan. The canons Of taste which the Greeks invented and the Romans accepted, have never ceased to guide and control literary composition in all the vernacular tongues. Consciously or unconsciously, the poet, the historian, the philosopher, has measured his own excellence by a comparison with the work of ancient writers; and the form in which his thoughts have taken shape has been borrowed, with little modification, from the models set by the Greeks. To the Romans, with whom our connexion was immediate, we Owe the rudiments of that education, and a large residuum of Roman ideas and Latin phrases in our modern tongues has rendered a knowledge of the Latin language indispensable for research into the history of any portion of our national life and culture. 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.