Excerpt from The Relations of Latin and English as Living Languages in England During the Age of Milton First, the production of great humanistic scholars. The study of books was pursued to an extent almost incredible at the present day. There raged a national epidemic of scholar ship under the influence of the narrow humanism which set up classical learning as an end worthy and glorious in itself. Boys at six or seven began the study of Latin and continued until Latin epitaphs were engraved on their tombs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.