The discussion of classics has again been revived. Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after all, of the past, and a comprehension of the laws of nature must not exclude the laws of man, who is a part of nature. The past lives and tingles in every particle of our body. The exclusive domination of Latin and Greek was due to their inherent power. Greek and Latin are worthy of study, if only for the beauty and grandeur of the languages. They are among the greatest instruments of thought, and we cannot neglect those languages without damage to ourselves."