Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-29
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Ca veabnessos--its genius In q word
This is hard, II involves intense
application ana ussiduOus effort, bat
this is a price that has To hC paid by
those who want 20 acquire genuine
knowledge OF a strange language.
And ii must not be supposed that
Il is al drugery With Increasing "a.
cility, comes increasing pleasure inl
tho exercise of the wly-acquired fac
ulit aud each step forward reveals q
wider field of intellectual enjoyment.
The New Yorl, Evening Posts cor
respondent talks of the deslrahilty of
reading the classics as literature
Such short cuts Ia learning sound at
tractiyc. but they are. unfortunately
largely illusory. Tor assurcdly the ~
crary beauties OF language can never
hc appreciated without thorough
knowledge OF IT'S constructions and of
all the delicate shades 90 meaning
attaching to its words aud phrases,
and such knowledge can only Dee at
taiucd by patient study. and persist
ent practice OF all the methods which
experience and common sense lay
down for lanWage.studN, among which
composition occupies q foremost place.
Nevertheless. there is an echo OF
truth in the contention at the CORE.
spondcnt There is tendency In
many educational establishments. IN
which the classics are cultivated. 30
over DO the grammatical analysis OF
the works that are being studied. and
hence, unduly to restrict the amount
read each day Students are perhaps.
-. k.atk hrufUe
duly over obscure and difficult pas.
sages Probably the best rule Is to
make two or three honest attempts 10
unrayel the difficulty, aud then II Il
refuses 90 Weld 10 our Efforts. 20 pass
Il over and II will possibly happen
that a little further on. We shall come
to q passage that viii shed the need
ed lirht on what previously We had
been unable 90 understand The more
Of an author We read the more We be-
come familiarized with his peculiar
tricks of language and his characters.
tic manncrlsms,-and In consequences,
The easier he becomes to MS
u u.s. therefore. ms the CORES pond.
cnt indicates. better TO read two or
three hundred lines day han thirty.
and II this proves incompatible with
an exhaustive grammatical analysis.
then 10 Conline the latter to Il fraction
o. The total amount read
This Is not sloven!ncss. for. after
all IN reading Virgil for example We
insist on understanding him with ?
far greater degree of litcralncss and
constituting him with far more thor
oughness, than We do IN reading an
English poet Shakespeare, for exam.
pie or Milton. There Is, therefore q
margin in our study of the classics for
a slight relaxation occasionally OF the
rules ~ strictncss
The New York Evening Post CORE
spondcnt seems 10 believe that school.
BOYS can be taught to relish the class
les as literature. and doubtless they
can, but with some essential limlta.
tons. due. more especially, to their
lack OF experience of life
Those limitations OF the iuveniloI
mind in this very connection were
beautifully stated by Cardinal New
man when he wrote:
let us consider Zoo, how differ
emily young aud old are affected BY
the words Of some rLssic author
such as Homer or Horace. Passages
which to boy are but rhetorical com.
monplaces. neither better nor worse
than a hundred others which any
clever writer might supply which mel
gets boy heart and thinks very fine
snd initiates, az he thinks, success.
fully in his own flowing vorslhcation
az length come home to him. when
long years have passed. and he has
had experience of lifc and pierce him
ia 10 Ia.
with their sad carnestness and vivid
cXnctness. Then he comes 20 under
stand how IL Is that lines the birth
ot some chance morning OF evening AZ
an lonian festival or among the Sn.
bine hills have lasted generation after
generation, for thousands of wears,
with power over the mind and al
charm which the current literature OIL
his own day. with all Us obvious ad.
vantages, is utterly unable To rival
Perhaps this Is the reason Of the med.
ieyal opinion about Virgil, as " AL
pgopher or Musician; his single words
ana phrases, his pathetic half.liues
giving utterance, as the voice Of
Nature herself, "a that pain aud
WEAKNESS yet hope of better things,
which Is the experience OF her chill.
dren IN every time"
u this Is true. and Il IT, he main
use after al OF the study OF the elias
sizes az college. over and above the
intellectual exercise, h 10 open 10 the
students "a neld IN which they will
love 10 browse all their lives long
20 use the expression OF The New
York Posts correspondent
And so great are the advantages ol
this taste that hardly any price that
may have Ia he paid for u Is TOO high