" I only say that both sides have strong arguments to support them," he went on, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch.
" My sympathies are classical from education, but in this discussion I am personally unable to arrive at a conclusion.
I see no distinct grounds for classical studies being given a preeminence over scientific studies.
" "The natural sciences have just as great an educational value," put in Pestsov.
" Take astronomy, take botany, or zoology with its system of general principles.