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exhibit of their arts and industries." There is no field of human 

 physical activity which might not find illustration among the ex- 

 hibits, and no field of mental activity not provided for in the de- 

 liberations of this Congress; but more than this, there is nothing 

 represented in either the Exposition or the Congress which may not 

 properly be made the subject of university study. 



Not only do the architect and the legislator build wiser, but also 

 the poet often speaks truer, than he knows. Terence's 



homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto 



has gained in the course of ages a deeper and truer meaning, probably 

 far deeper than the poet ever intended it to bear, but a meaning and a 

 truth from which mankind can never recede. So too the very word 

 " university," which as originally used had no reference to the univer- 

 sality of human interest, but denoted merely the whole body of 

 teachers and scholars of the studium generate, has earned the right 

 to the wider sense now attached to it; it is becoming, and it is our 

 duty to help it to become, a panepistemion, as the Greeks of to-day 

 call it. Nothing that man can possibly find out is alien to him; not 

 only to increase knowledge, but to multiply the fields of knowledge, 

 is the peculiar province of the universities, which might well take 

 as their motto that famous line. They are peculiarly called upon 

 to take all research under their protection, to train for it, and to 

 encourage its practice. 



