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specialise the instruction in each department. 

 Thus literature and jihilolngv, n-prcsented in the 

 elementary school by English alone, in the uni- 

 versity will extend over the ancient and modern 

 languages. History, which, like charity, best be- 

 gins at home, but, like charity, should not end 

 there, will ramify into anthropology, archaeology, 

 political history, and geography, with the history 

 of the growth of the human mind and of its pro- 

 ducts in the shape of philosophy, science, and art. 

 And the university will present to the student 

 libraries, museums of antiquities, collections of 

 coins, and the like, which will efficiently subserve 

 these studies. Instruction in the elements of 

 social economy, a most essential, but hitherto 

 sadly-neglected part of elementary education, will 

 develop in the university into political economy, 

 sociology, and law. Physical science will have 

 its great divisions of physical geography, with 

 geology and astronomy; physics; chemistry and 

 biology; represented not merely by professors and 

 their lectures, but by laboratories, in which the 

 students, under guidance of demonstrators, will 

 work out facts for themselves and come into that 

 direct contact with reality which constitutes the 

 fundamental distinction of scientific education. 

 Mathematics will soar into its highest regions; 

 while the high peaks of philosophy may be scaled 

 by those whose aptitude for abstract thought has 

 been awakened by elementary logic. Finally, 



