Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-14

Taking for their text a characteristic letter
from Thomas Carl yle on the subject of natural
history, some of our contemporaries are com
planning that we waste too much time in try
ing to acquire knowledge of dead languages
and of sciences too reconcile for daily USE
Mr.. Carlyle's letter is addressed to Mr..
Adam White, teacher, who is successfully
introducing the study Of natural history into
schools and families in Edinburg. We quote
the following passages;
For many years it has been one Of my constant
regrets that no schOOlmaster of mine had Know
edge of natural far at least as to have taught
me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the
tinually meeting me with salutaion which can
not answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody
teach me the consultations 2G anu make me al
head, and which | don't half know TO this day? /
love to prophecy that there will come time when.
not in EdinburS only, but N all Scottsh and Euro
pean towns and villages, the schoolmaSter will be
strictly required to possess these two capnbiics-
neither Greek nor Latin more strickland that no in
enouus little denizen of this universe be thencefor
ward debarred from his right of liberty in those
departments and doomed to look them as if
across grated fences all his life For the rest
cannot doubt, but one way or other, you will and
by make your valuable indubitabe gift available in
Edinburg, either to the young or to the older, on
such conditions as there are, and much recommend
Jealous and judicious persistence till you do
ceed.
All This il ,uite sensible on the mar, Of Mr..
Carlyle, though it hasnot the merit Of novelty.
In Sargent Fourth Reader, now used in
our Maryland schools. we find a reading lesson
on s.Tbe Stndv Of Natural HISTORY" in which
the same views are urged upon public atten-
ton. and the writer truly rcmarks:-''W Without
s.undervaluing other branches of science, it
-
cor the history of the natural products of the
sseartb. is canable of aifordine more to inter
cost moro ia rnfrosb and relax. tho well.dis-
.:Dosed mind. ON = very slight acquaintance
with II. than any other pursuit. Not stem
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who urge the study OF natural history, decry
the study OF the ancient languages, some little
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