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Show Military Education Science. In tho courso of tho discussion which Is now going on In Kngland over tho placo of sclenco In military oducatlon, ono fact has been Insisted upon by. overy pleader for more scl-onco, scl-onco, namely, that tho defect of classical class-ical education ns well In mllltnry nnd naval matters as In tho other professions profes-sions Is ns much In tho mental habits It produces as In tho kuowledgo which It falls to Impart. It not only furnishes tho student with an outlook on tho world, based on tho sclenco of the year 1 13. C, but It equips him with Intellectual tools, beautifully ornamented, and of great artistic perfection, but ns hopelessly Inndcquato to tho needs of modern llfo ns aro now tho bow and arrow In warfare. Tho claims of a quack or tho "revolutionary discovery" tin-earthed tin-earthed by an Imaginative reporter, scorn to the classicist ns Inherently probablo and far moro Interesting than tho carefully worded announcement announce-ment ot a great scientist. Thoro Is no dlfferenco In probability, bo far ns ho can rco, regarding tho truth of tho announcement that a South American traveler has discovered n bush producing pro-ducing worms as fruit, and tho claim of nn Indian doctor that mosquito bites causa malaria. Ho accepts statements as facts, becauso be-causo somo great man haB made them. Ho Is a bcllovcr In, and stu-dont stu-dont of, words rather than things. It Is this nttltudo of mind, this confusing confus-ing of facts nnd fancies, that forms thn heaviest Indictment against tho classical school. |