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systems that are mouldering: and codes of inter- 

 national ethics that are frankly savage is but a 

 symptom of the age. The antinomy between the old 

 and the new is to be seen in its greatest perfection 

 only in the ancient universities. As the child is 

 father to the man, it is in the schools and universities 

 of a country that the horoscope of its future is cast. 

 They are the microcosm wherein is to be sought the 

 discordant elements which have to be reconciled. 

 But this is a reconciliation which must begin a 

 generation or two before it can mature, and in this 

 reconciliation the council-chamber is world-wide and 

 the plenipotentiaries are university teachers and 

 schoolmasters. 



It is the growth of the power of things over ideas, 

 of science over instincts, of external nature over 

 human nature, that gives to the problem of war its 

 only feature of novelty and therein its only hope of 

 solution. Science now forges the thunderbolts that 

 Jove is pleased to hurl. It has displaced Ceres the 

 giver of harvest, Mercury the messenger of the gods, 

 and well-nigh all the ancient deities, save Jove. Jove 

 remains to cultivate the artistic temperament on the 

 top of Olympus, dissipating on his loves and his 

 hates, his fears and his jealousies, the resources of 

 a world which he is powerless to replenish, and 

 which has outgrown him. 



The older subjects have one great advantage over 

 science. In the course of their long history they 

 have developed an unrivalled vocabulary of vitupera- 

 tion and contumely for poachers in their preserves 

 who have sneaked in in disguise. Would that they 

 might occasionally direct it against those amongst 

 themselves who are for ever discussing science and 

 scientific research, and are as intimate with either as 

 I am with the Greek drama. Indeed, thanks to the 

 compulsory Latin and Greek in our early education 



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