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The Old Humanities and the New Science - William Osler
William Osler
The Old Humanities and the New Science
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE OLD HUMANITIES AND THE NEW SCIENCE
THE OLD HUMANITIES AND THE NEW SCIENCE
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THE OLD HUMANITIES AND THE NEW SCIENCE BY SIR WILLIAM OSLER, BT., M.D., F.R.S. WITH INTRODUCTION BY HARVEY CUSHING, M.D. Illustration BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1920ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
INTRODUCTION
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In writing a prefatory note to an American reprint of this notable address there are three things to consider—the writer, his subject, and the occasion. The greatly beloved author had a multitude of friends in all lands, and far abler pens have written much concerning him during the past twelve months. The subject is one of no less moment on this side of the Atlantic than to those in older countries who concern themselves with scholarship and education, though here the classicists are having a particularly hard struggle to retain in our academies, schools, and colleges a proper footing for the ancient languages and learning termed the humanities.
The circumstances under which the address was given are less familiar in this country than the author and his subject, for we as yet have no corresponding organization, or at least none with such an ambitious programme. Consequently it is appropriate that this note should dwell chiefly upon the occasion.
The Classical Association, composed of a large body of university men, teachers, and schoolmasters, with local branches in several places in Great Britain and her colonies, was established in 1904 with this object:
To promote the development and maintain the well-being of classical studies and in particular:
(a) To impress upon public opinion the claim of such studies to an eminent place in the national scheme of education;
(b) To improve the practice of classical teaching by free discussion of its scope and methods;
(c) To encourage investigation and call attention to new discoveries;
(d) To create opportunities for friendly intercourse and co-operation among all lovers of classical learning in this country.
That Sir William Osler should have been chosen to preside over such an assembly of British scholars is no matter for surprise, for though a humanist in the broad sense of the term as a student of human affairs and human nature, rather than of Latin and Greek, he at the same time was a wide reader with a relish for knowledge,
successful not only in its quest in many fields beyond that of his chosen profession, but particularly so in his ability to hand his literary gleanings on to others in a new and attractive form. Nevertheless, the presidency of the Classical Association, considering the avowed objects of this body, was a most signal honour in view of his reputation primarily as a scientist and teacher of medicine.
His immediate predecessor, the Professor of Greek at Christ Church, opened his presidential address of the year before with these words:
It is the general custom of this Association to choose as its President alternately a classical scholar and a man of wide eminence outside the classics. Next year you are to have a man of science, a great physician who is also famous in the world of learning and literature. Last year you had a statesman, who, though a statesman, is also a great scholar and man of letters, a sage and counsellor in the antique mould, of world-wide fame and unique influence.
Thus, though in himself sufficiently representative of humanistic culture, Osler was in this strict