Excerpt from Liberal Education in Nova Scotia: An Address Delivered at the Encoenia of the University of King's College, Nova Scotia

If it be asked what especial benefit is derived from the study of a dead language, it may be answered that all forms and varieties of language are so much crystallised thought, and the process of tracing back fine shades 0! Expression to the equally fine shades of thought to which they correspond, affords mental training of the highest order.

Besides this, it may be added that even a rough acquaintance with the languages of the past opens to us the door of the greatest and noblest literature of the world. Through it we may enter at once into the society of some of the best and wisest men the world has seen. Properly used, such a privilege cannot narrow the mind or weaken the sympathies. It is not mere prettiness of composition as some people seem to suppose, that we learn from the grand old writers. The glory of classical literature consists in the simplicity and gran deur of its thoughts, its unity of purpose, its severe subordination of ornament to the moral effect of the whole.

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