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name, I must call Physical Geography. What I 

 mean is that which the Germans call '^ Erdkundc.^' 

 It is a description of the eartli, of its place and 

 relation to other bodies; of its general structure, 

 and of its great features — winds, tides, mountains, 

 plains: of the chief forms of the vegetable and 

 animal worlds, of the varieties of man. It is 

 the peg upon which the greatest quantity of useful 

 and entertaining scientific information can be sus- 

 pended. 



Literature is not upon the College programme; 

 but I hope some day to see it there. For litera- 

 ture is the greatest of all sources of refined 

 pleasure, and one of the great uses of a liberal 

 education is to enable us to enjoy that pleasure. 

 There is scope enough for the purposes of liberal 

 education in the study of the rich treasures of our 

 own language alone. All that is needed is direc- 

 tion, and the cultivation of a refined taste by atten- 

 tion to sound criticism. But there is no reason 

 why French and German should not be mastered 

 sufficiently to read what is worth reading in those 

 languages with pleasure and with profit. 



And finally, by and b}^, we must have History; 

 treated not as a succession of battles and 

 dynasties; not as a series of biographies; not as 

 evidence that Providence has always been on the 

 side of either Whigs or Tories; but as the develop- 

 ment of man in times past, and in other conditions 

 than our own. 



