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...much of that broad influence which he had exercised over the life and intellect of the civilized world. He lost his character as a philosopher and came to be regarded merely for his position in literature. Later he was not even accorded the supremacy in literature. In the Augustan age and the later centuries he was not appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer to reassume his proper place in literature. England has the credit...
...being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric age. So that with improved helps and a better point of view we are prepared to do good work in the study of Homer...
...study of Homer is not a study of literature: it is a study of life in all its phases. Homer saw an idealized world, and yet the reality of the picture he has drawn forces us to the conclusion that he has depicted the life of his own age. Society and state is clearly described by him, but religion is not so clearly defined. In the religion of Homer, all men want gods; the gods are near the men and are easily placable; and men communed with the gods directly in their prayers and sacrifices. There is a change...
...spirit of the age, as revealed by statistics, says that the present stages towards professional life are too circuitous and slow. Harvard has her choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion...
...changes of standard have developed the fitting schools of high grade into what are colleges in all but name, and they have raised the average age of college graduates to such a point that candidates for the professions can not complete college and professional training at an earlier age than...