There are plenty of humane people in the world who have never wittingly
encountered the classics - whether Vergil and Homer, or the authors who are
included under the rubric Classics in the bookstore in the mall. The
humanities are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for making one
You might call E. Christian Kopff the Allan Bloom of the late 90s. He too
speaks out of a conservative standpoint. He too promotes tradition. He,
in fact, says tradition is the central theme of his book. Like Bloom, his
book, The Devil Knows Latin, is no plug for a Great Books revival. He
thinks
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I too think that mathematics and the classics go
together.
They used to do at Oxford; in the early nineteenth century a 'double
first' meant a first in Literae Humaniores and a first in mathematics.
It is not for me to say
