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that side of his nature, through wliich man has 

 access to a perennial spring of ennobling pleasure, 

 should be omitted from any comprehensive scheme 

 of University education. 



All Universities recognise Literature in the 

 sense of the old Khetoric, which is art incarnate 

 in words. Some, to their credit, recognise Art in 

 its narrower sense, to a certain extent, and con- 

 fer degrees for proficiency in some of its branches. 

 If there are Doctors of Music, why should there 

 be no Masters of painting, of Sculpture, of Ar- 

 chitecture? I should like to see Professors of the 

 Fine Arts in every University; and instruction in 

 some branch of their work made a part of the 

 Arts curriculum. 



I just now expressed the opinion that, in our 

 ideal University, a man should be able to obtain 

 instruction in all forms of knowledge. Xow, by 

 *' forms of knowledge " I mean the great classes 

 of things knowable; of which the first, in logical, 

 though not in natural, order is knowledge relating 

 to the scope and limits of the mental faculties of 

 man, a form of knowledge which, in its positive 

 aspect, answers pretty much to Logic and part of 

 Psychology, while, on its negative and critical 

 side, it corresponds with Metaphysics. 



A second class comprehends all that knowledge 

 which relates to man's welfare, so far as it is deter- 

 mined by his own acts, or what we call his con- 

 duct. It answers to Moral and Religious philos- 



