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From the natural progress of civilization, the arts and sciences have assumed an importance which has called forth a corresponding advance in the cultivation of the languages of those nations whose high state of cultivation, and rich literature, have rendered their idioms powerful auxiliaries in the acquisition of useful knowledge, the formation of taste, and the discipline of the mental faculties. At first confined to the privileged few, a knowledge of these languages was looked upon rather in the light of a fashionable accomplishment. As their practical value became more apparent, they began to be studied also for utility's sake. It is only since the luxury of the few has become the want of the many that the real importance of the modern languages has been better understood; and that, not only with a view to the benefits consequent on their acquisition, but also as a means of intellectual cultivation, their study has become 'a leading branch of modern national education.
Foreign languages, indeed, should not be studied merely as a means of international intercourse, or on account of the information their writers may afi'ord. The study of language, besides being a very wholesome mental exercise, yields in itself a class of knowledge second to none in interest or value. Language is not only the organ of thought, the medium of communication between mind and mind; but so inseparable is word from thought, so instantaneously does each suggest the other, that it has been forcibly contended that without words - not necessarily written or even spoken, but conceived - thoughts would be impossible. Useful, then, as a second language may be, either to extend our circle of communication, or to multiply our sources of information, it will assume a much higher importance, if its study he made subservient to a more profound knowledge of the native tongue, to the formation of taste, and the cultivation of the intellectual powers.
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