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intellectual level, by devoting the best years of their
life to the declension of Latin nouns, the
conjugation of Greek verbs, and the other educational
barbarisms of the effete and worse than useless
monasticism that is not yet stamped out of our
grammar schools and ancient universities. Why,
should an English boy be crammed with the
demoralizing details of the filthy Greek mythology,
of the foulness of the Roman emperors, and of the
butcheries of Roman conquests, while he is kept in
gross ignorance of the literature and the
constitutional history of his own country, and of the
complex organization of modern society, which
Adam Smith and his successors have unravelled.
I speak only of these now, without reference to
physical science, because the defenders of the
monkish inheritance of our old universities have
invented the feeble pretext that the classics
supply the study of literature and humanity, which
physical science omits.
Three substantial meals are served daily on
all these coasting packets, at an uniform, fixed, and
printed tariff. The “frokost,” or breakfast, the
charge for which is 36 skillings = about 1s. 4d.
English, usually consists of one dish of hot fish
and one of meat, handed round by the waiter,
besides sundry shavings of German sausage, pressed
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