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is ignorant. The state that attempts to follow his counsel is stupidly, 

 even if unintentionally, illiberal and uneivic. 



As to whether the advancement of learning and the elevation of the 

 intellectual standard constitute a benefit to the state, any one who has 

 read of dark ages and ages of enlightenment, or is acquainted with cul- 

 tivated men and ignorant, or has lived in intellectual and intellectless 

 centers, may settle the question for himself. It is the difference be- 

 tween running water and the stagnant pool. 



And further, as to the uses of advanced scholarship in the liberal 

 arts. The public is familiar with the absurdities of the dry-as-dust 

 professor, and takes great credit to itself when it more or less good- 

 humoredly tolerates him. It does not stop to think that the books and 

 articles and lectures which are its own sole means of intelligent think- 

 ing about the past and present ol nature and mankind are possible only 

 because of the patience and devotion of those same dry-as-dust pro- 

 fessors, who have searched out the details of fact from which enlight- 

 ened conclusions could be drawn. It does not stop to think that knowl- 

 edge has always proceeded from above downward — which is only another 

 way of saying that not all men can be leaders, and that progress is 

 always a matter of leadership. 



Least of all does the public stop to think, while clamoring for the 

 practical and discouraging the liberal arts, that pure learning, learning 

 for the mere satisfaction of the learner, has always preceded applied 

 learning. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but pure science 

 has always been its father, and pure science is dependent for its spirit 

 upon the household of pure learning. 



IV 



There is still another aspect of the liberal arts professor. So 

 far, it is his active side that we have considered. But his contribution 

 to society lies not only in the services of teacher and scholar. It lies 

 also. in his personal qualities. More than the members of almost any 

 other profession or class, he contributes by Being, as well as by Doing. 



With the college professor, too. Being is not, as it is in the case of 

 most professions, an accident. It is a duty strictly required of him. 

 The college professor must be clean-lipped and clean-hearted, honest and 

 honorable. In what other calling, except the ministry, does a single 

 instance of scandal involve immediate dismissal? The world is as 

 strict with the college professor as with priest or pastor. "If a man 

 desire the office of professor, he must be blameless, the husband of one 

 wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; 

 not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, 

 not a brawler, not covetous. Moreover he must have a good report of 

 them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the 

 devil." 



