Thomas Paine Quotes
The Difficulty Of Learning The Dead Languages Does Not Arise From Any Superior Abstruseness In The Languages Themselves, But In Their Being Dead, And The Pronunciation Entirely Lost. It Would Be The Same Thing With Any Other Language When It Becomes Dead. The Best Greek Linguist That Now Exists Does Not Understand Greek So Well As A Grecian Plowman Did, Or A Grecian Milkmaid; And The Same For The Latin, Compared With A Plowman Or A Milkmaid Of The Romans; And With Respect To Pronunciation And Idiom, Not So Well As The Cows That She Milked. It Would Therefore Be Advantageous To The State Of Learning To Abolish The Study Of The Dead Languages, And To Make Learning Consist, As It Originally Did, In Scientific Knowledge.
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