Show classic languages great commanders and great states men are as necessary to day as ever and if we must seek tor the greatest of either class they are revealed to us only by the greek and koman classics alexander hannibal and caesar lead on the one hand while pericles au gustus and just nian stand forth on the other if philosophy and poetry had not been laughed out of court pythagoras plato and socrates might be mentioned among the former and euripides sophocles virgil ovid and horace among the latter we study the mind and search the soul to day with a microscope and chemical tests while poetry is not considered at all gave by a few sentimentalists and idealists nevertheless when it becomes necessary to know things even in this age of materialism one must go back and dig into the greek and roman history philosophy and literature for there is still to be found much that Is of practical valtee and it may not be out of place to mention that it was in those languages that christ and the apostles and in which the latter wrote |