The Humanities in the Americas

M ties are indeed, and have long been, in peril, but not from war. What blanches the scholarly cheek is perhaps the possibility that the college course may be permanently shrunk from four to three years and our own lecturing cut down. This, of course, would be tragic, yet the effect upon the humanities would not necessarily be disastrous. In earlier and more precise decades the humanities were the Greek and Latin classics. They earned the name of humanities by the human wisdom and the human sympathy which permeated them. They encouraged us to know ourselves, to study our fellows, and to increase the difference between men and animals. The business of the humanities was to make human

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