IX ADDRESS ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 257 



It appears to me that what I have ventured to 

 lay down as the principles which should govern 

 the relations of a university to education in 

 general, are entirely in accordance with the 

 measures you have adopted. You have set no 

 restrictions upon access to the instruction you pro- 

 pose to give; you have provided that such instruc- 

 tion, either as given by the university or by asso- 

 ciated institutions, should cover the field of human 

 intellectual activity. You have recognised the 

 importance of encouraging research. You pro- 

 pose to provide means by which young men, 

 Avho may be full of zeal for a literary or for 

 a scientific career, but who also may have mis- 

 taken aspiration for inspiration, may bring their 

 capacities to a test, and give their powers a fair 

 trial. If such a one fail, his endowment termi- 

 nates, and there is no harm done. If he succeed, 

 you may give power of flight to the genius of a 

 Davy or a Faraday, a Carljde or a Locke, whose in- 

 fluence on the future of his fellow-men shall be 

 absolutely incalculable. 



You have enunciated the principle that " the 

 glory of the university should rest upon the 

 character of the teachers and scholars, and not 

 upon their numbers of buildings constructed for 

 their use." And I look upon it as an essential 

 and most important feature of your plan that 

 the income of the professors and teachers shall be 

 independent of the number of students whom 



