Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ting instincts by backing their boysfor the Blue Ribbon, the Balliol Schol-arships. These boys are then givendaily doses of classical veirse competi-tion; I infer for the same reason thatjockeys are fed on gin. It is curious to see how widely edu-cators differ as to the fundamentalprinciples of their business. The Brit-ish system is built upon competitions,prizes and examinations. The Americanstate universities in the days of theirpristine purity—I mean by that ofcourse, when I was a student—regardedcompetition as vicious, prizes as demor-alizing and examinations as an evil tobe eliminated if possible. But it ill be-comes a pragmatist to condemn a sys-tem that works so well as the British,whatever theoretical objections may oc-cur. Much as Schiller detested makingverses in a dead language, he did itso well that he got a Major Exhibition.This gave him $350 for five years aswell as $450 in Exhibitions fromRugby. But it also meant that he hadsold himself to run in harness for an- 265
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HUMANIST AND ICONOCLAST DR. F. C. S. SCHILLER OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD, HAS SHOCKED CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHERS BY HIS SHARP CRITICISM OF CONVENTIONAL METAPHYSICS AND FORMAL LOGIC February 12, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 267 other four years at Balliol and wasobliged to master a philosophy whichhe already felt to be a fraud. T. H.Green had died just before Schillercame up and had been sainted for thegreater glory of Balliol, and it seemedto the tutors good pedagogy to set theirpupils to begin the study of philosophywith Greens Prolegomena to Eth-ics. Most of the boys confronted withthis abstruse introduction came to theconclusion that metaphysics was won-derful, but that they had no head forit. Schiller very curiously came to theopposite conclusion from the samepremise. Orthodox Oxford was then as nowunder the sway of the great philosophicTrinity of Plato, Aristotle and Hegel,which was supposed somehow to beconcordant with or at least allied tothe theological Trinity, and thereforefit

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