No More Learning

We have shown how comedy was artistically debased by a regard to the multitude, and in fact sank into vulgar coarseness ; we have further shown that two of the most           Roman authors were schoolmasters in the first instance and only became poets in the sequel, and that, while the Greek philology which only sprang up after the decline of the national literature experimented merely on the dead body, in Latium grammar and literature had their foundations laid simultaneously and went hand in hand, almost as in the case of modern missions to the heathen.