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that, with assiduous practice, will retain its [????ness] into old age, and edge beyond the military years, and
be even be keener at seventy than it was at sixty. The history of its exploits
would make a grand subject for a book. The medieval schoolmen, following
the Romans, taught boys logic next after grammar. First, Grammar, second, Logic,
third, Rhetoric; made up the "trivium" [literally, junction of three] of studies with which
school studies began, as being the easiest and most indispensible. They were followed
by the four recognized mathematical sciences, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music,
and Astronomy; the "quadrivium". The whole were the seven liberal arts, so called as which
constituting the proper learning properfit for the a freeman, and the slave owner? an owner of white
slaves.