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all sources of refined pleasure, and one of the great uses of 

 a liberal education is to enable us to enjoy that pleasure. There 

 is scope enough for the purposes of liberal education in the study 

 of the rich treasures of our own language alone. All that is 

 needed is direction, and the cultivation of a refined taste by 

 attention to sound criticism. But there is no reason why French 

 and German should not be mastered sufficiently to read what is 

 worth reading in those languages, with pleasure and with 

 profit. 



And finally, by-and-by, we must have History ; treated not 

 as a succession of battles and dynasties ; not as a series of bio 

 graphies ; not as evidence that Providence has always been on 

 the side of either Whigs or Tories ; but as the development of 

 man in times past, and in other conditions than our own. 



But, as it is one of the principles of our College to be self- 

 supporting, the public must lead, and we must follow, in these 

 matters. If my hearers take to heart what I have said about 

 liberal education, they will desire these things, and I doubt not 

 we shall be able to supply them. But we must wait till the 

 demand is made. 



