Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-05-23
Latin In our Public 2chooIs.

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Porthe Gazette
Latin In Our Public Schools.
The benefits resulting from the study of the Lat
IN are Obvisus because innumerable. No matter
what your vocation in life, your interests will bs
turthered and your capacities for good increased,
By knowledge of the language Of ancient Rome.
The following unauswsTabe arguments sufficient
" establish this fact will prove my point Yam
Aee-Wise, by sundrY questions.
First otall, doesnt everybody know that it was q
certain sentence OF tue poet Seneca which led Ia The
discovery Of America Ii you don't beheveit, turn
to lrving's Columbus and bO convinced.
How can a lawyer or politician make speech
without first reading CIcero's OTatiOnes and his
treatise de Oratoreg Let the reader familiar with
his prcsOdy, call to mind the electrical effect pro-
duccd upon the untutored Kentucky backwOOds-
men by Henry Clay, when he finished one OF his
electioneerlng speeches with this magnificent pero-
| rating Outburst,- which his hearers thought must
| necessarily be address to the American flag:
IX atque * pToduc. HlstTix cum tOrnce va
| rx, &c. THIS telcitous quotation came gerry near
making him President OF the United States.
How can yOnng man make love properly and
in accordance with classical ruiz J, without knoWl
edge of OVid's "AFt OF Love-" DidO's spelu ncular
amours with the pious Alneas Horaces odes to
LYDIA, Lyce and Lalage. and the Basia or Kisses,
| of Johannes SecundusS
How can a farmer plant corn aud raise cabbage
and onions without familiarity with VirgIls
| GeOrgicsy
How can wit get off original fanny things and
carefully prepared impromptus in company with
out acquaintance with Martials EpiqramS 7
How can a rhymer scribble poetry without un-
derstandng all about Horace's ArS POeticd, no v
can he wnte letters 10 his friends without first De
rusing his EpiSioiael
How can physician administer his 5olusses ana
pills, or kill oil his patients scientific principles
and SeculdHm artenI, without reading Auus COrne
Illus CELSIUS De medicinal
How could our best shoemakers "put money il
their purse" If. they knew nothing OF the s0ccu
and IcothWnns OF antiquity2
How could our tallors make good fits, and, il
their extorionate charges therefor, give their
toners ftS please acknowledge the sly dOWbts
tcHdTe by recognitory grn), unless the komaI
tOga and pdiluM We're as familiar to them as house
hold words
| How could our Omniscient newspaper reporter
write so fiippantly on things in general, If the
had not read Lucretius De Terunl nGtUya on ii
nature OF thingsP
Does anybody think that General Grant cou
have put down the Rebellion If he had not beel
cOnYersant with Niri ROmae. Cornelius NepOs au
Caesars Commentaries Or, could this countr
a have known how to deal with Jefferson Davis,
L cur sagaciOus and eru1ite statesmen had not bee
i posted in the conspiracy OF Catiline and tho il
II surrection Of Jugurtha US recorded by Sallust.
How could the obituary rhyme-slingist of Ii
ID Philadelphia Ledger write his beautiful aud p;
0, thctc mortuary notices, il he were unacquainte
Of with the EiC1,eS OF Tibullus and PropertIusp
in Or, to decoRd slightly i'll our scale OF illustr
al tions, how could our Obsidian-hued tOwnsma
Agnes, carry on his odorous business remunsr
w lively If he did not know all about the godde
CIOGcIRd, who presides over sewers and sinks al
nd their alhteraLve and rhyming concomitant or hO
", could no continuously preserve the lives OF b
r. subordnates If he had not read OF the death
ps Heliogabulus narrated by Suetonius
iy Therefore. by all means, Introduce Latin in
the Public Schools, and sOuss the pupils daily ii
- mild infusion OF that Indispensable hngol
T. LATINUs