B. The School of Science (occupied chiefly in the study of external facts and existences of constant kind).
C. The School of Art (occupied in the development of active and productive human faculties).
In the school A, I would include Composition in all languages, Poetry, History, Archæology, Ethics.
In the school B, Mathematics, Political Economy, the Physical Sciences (including Geography and Medicine).
In the school C, Painting, Sculpture, including Architecture, Agriculture, Manufacture, War, Music, Bodily Exercises (Navigation in seaport schools), including laws of health.
I should require, for a first class, proficiency in two schools; not, of course, in all the subjects of each chosen school, but in a well-chosen and combined group of them. Thus, I should call a very good first-class man one who had got some such range of subjects, and such proficiency in each, as this:
| English, Greek, and Mediæval-Italian Literature | High. |
| English and French History, and Archæology | Average. |
| Conic Sections | Thorough, as far as learnt. |
| Political Economy | Thorough, as far as learnt. |
| Botany, or Chemistry, or Physiology | High. |
| Painting | Average. |
| Music | Average. |
| Bodily Exercises | High. |
I have written you a sadly long letter, but I could not manage to get it shorter.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Very faithfully and respectfully yours,
J. Ruskin.
Rev. F. Temple.