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The Father of modern philosophy observes, " Certain it is that truth and good- 

 ness differ but as the seal and the print ; for truth prints goodness." This is the 

 impression which we would have continually made on the learner's mind by all his 

 studies, whether they relate to the works or to the ways of God, to nature, or to 

 history. In all he should be led to seek, and to love, wherever it is found, the 

 True, the Beautiful, and the Good. Where such is the prevailing spirit of the 

 place, the School becomes holy ground ; a temple ever ringing with the exhorta- 

 tion : " SuRSUM Cord A." Upward, Hearts — upward, above all paltry, sordid, 

 grovelling aims and desires ; upward, to a level with the dignity of your calling, 

 the privileges and duties of your station, the importance and arduousness of your 

 work ; upward, to a fellowship with the wise and good of all ages and all nations ; 

 upward, to the Father of Lights, the Fountain of all Goodness : Lift up your 

 Hearts. And from the inmost depths of many devoted wills there rises the clear 

 response: Wb lift them up unto the Lord. 



CONNOP THIRLWALL, The excellence of wisdom, 

 a Sermon preached at Llandingad Church, Llan- 

 dovery, on the occasion of laying the Foundation 

 Stone of the Welsh Educational Institute, Dec. 

 13th, 1849 (Remains, London, 1878, in. 352). 



