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Excerpt from Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 2: 1848 1888, Collected and Arranged
MY dear conington - Many thanks for your ready kindness - kindness such as you have always been prompt to show me. I leave Paris to-night for Italy, but I cannot go away without a word of thanks to you.
Piles of exercise-books are sent to me to look through, and I wish you could see them with me. The Latin verse is certainly very good; but it is clear that Latin and Greek are cultivated almost entirely with a view to giving the pupil a mastery over his own language a mastery which has always been the great object of intel lectual ambition here, and which counts for more than a like mastery does with us. Perhaps, because it does not count for so much with us, a like mastery is, in fact, scarcely ever attained in England - certainly never at school.
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