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Note 9 — THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY8

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Some of his antipathies appeal to the present writer; I much enjoy his irrelevant and hearty denunciation of the folly of treating the comparatively trivial Latin literature as of such peculiar importance as to entitle it to be grouped in grotesque association with the magnificent Greek literature under the unmeaning title of “classic.”

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