On the Classical Tongues and the Adventages of Their Study: An Inaugural Discourse, Pronounced Before the Governor and Legislature of South Carolina, by Request of the Trustees of the South Carolina College, December 12, 1835, in the Senate Chamber

Excerpt from On the Classical Tongues and the Adventages of Their Study: An Inaugural Discourse, Pronounced Before the Governor and Legislature of South Carolina, by Request of the Trustees of the South Carolina College, December 12, 1835, in the Senate Chamber

Let this ground, therefore, says Bacon, be laid that all Works are overcome by amplitude of reward, by soundness of direction, and by the conjunction of labours. The first multiplieth endeavour, the second pre venteth error, and the third supplieth the frailty of man. But the principal of these 18 direction. So far as the undergraduates are concerned I think that all these conditions of success' are measurably fulfilled in the present arrangements of the College, as much so as the general state of education Will allow. N 0 changes in this respect are desirable. But the interests of higher education demand something more than that culture ln passage, as Bacon expresses it, which 1s all that 1s contemplated ln provisions for nu dergraduates. Our Work stops with the degree. We have no foundations upon Which'scholars may be placed, tending to quietness and privateness of life, and'discli'arge of cares and troubles. We are wanting in facilities for conjunctions of learned menl and consequently the only persons Whose business it is to keep pace With the higher intelligence of the age, are the few professors who are employed in the work of instruction. With only such means we must fall behind 1n the march of improvement. There must be more competition, more leisure, more freedom from 'distracting cares.

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