202 THE IDEALS OF A SCIENCE SCHOOL 



versities ought to be no mere professional schools 

 of medicine, but primarily concerned with the 

 research and creative aspect of their subject. 



But is not the case of the Faculty of Law and 

 its relation to the legal profession an even more 

 forcible one ? The study of the cause and character 

 of social maladies with a view to their prevention, 

 the elimination of the causes of dispute and litigation, 

 the simplification and modernisation of our inherited 

 codes with continual and timely regard to ever- 

 changing conditions, the tasks which, in an ideal 

 university, I have assigned to the hypothetical 

 research Faculty of Duty, to be pursued for its own 

 sake, by students of the foundation of human law, is 

 surely more in keeping with the real character of a 

 university than even the training and qualification 

 of professional lawyers. That is the true preventive 

 medicine of social injustice and its attendant con- 

 tempt for the law and tendency toward anarchy and 

 Bolshevism. It is sad to ponder on the history of 

 the great conflicts with which the advance in 

 knowledge has inundated society, in which every 

 change has been forced, as it were, at the point of 

 the bayonet, against the existing law, and hardly a 

 single one has been intelligently anticipated and 

 forestalled by suitable legislation. No anomaly 

 however glaring, no injustice however scandalous, 

 is rectified without a wearing and demoralising 

 political agitation. The principles of equity and 

 justice and esteem for the higher value of life in 

 general are, to-day, whatever was the case in the 

 ancient world, indigenous to society and come into 

 conflict rather with its rulers than with the masses. 



Of modern times research in science has more 

 and more been confined to universities, and the 

 number of scientific amateurs, who once did so much 

 good work, grows yearly less. For if it is not 



