,o BENEFIT OF 



deavor to inflill into the minds of young peo^ 

 pie a contempt for univerfities, and to with- 

 draw the fludious from thefe feats of learning, 

 fuggeft very pernicious advice ; not confider- 

 ing that in thefe florehoufes of knowledge 

 much greater, and more excellent things may 

 be attained by means of experience in a very 

 Ihort fpace of time, than by the mod multifa- 

 rious, moft indefatigable, and molt extenfive . 

 reading at home all one's life. 



If i may be allowed to fpeak what is really 

 fa6l, this our univerfity may contend with any 

 foreign one whatever for true, and folid learn- 

 ing in all thofe parts of knowledge, which i 

 have enumerated, owing to our noble, and 

 exemplary inftitutions. For we begin to ex- 

 cell in botanical gardens, in hofpitals, in ap- 

 paratus's for experimental philofophy, in ana- 

 tomical preparations, and other helps for arts 

 and fciences, and to excell fo much that we 

 are likely in time, by the blefling of the al- 

 mighty, to be inferior to no univerfity. 



Although fome univerfities excell others on 

 account of certain advantages peculiar to 

 theiTifelves •, for in proportion as one kind of 

 knowledg;e in this, or that nation is held 

 in greater, or lefs edeem, and is therefore 



more 



