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of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the 

 methods by which knowledge is obtained. In 

 such a University, the force of living example 

 should fire the student with a noble ambition to 

 emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow 

 in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of 

 knowledge. And the very air he breathes should 

 be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that 

 fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession 

 than much learning ; a nobler gift than the power 

 of increasing knowledge ; by so much greater and 

 nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is 

 greater than the intellectual ; for veracity is the 

 heart of morality. 



But the man who is all morality and intellect, 

 although he may be good and even great, is, after 

 all, only half a man. There is beauty in the 

 moral world and in the intellectual world ; but 

 there is also a beauty which is neither moral nor 

 intellectual the beauty of the world of Art. 

 There are men who are devoid of the power of 

 seeing it, as there are men who are born deaf and 

 blind, and the loss of those, as of these, is simply 

 infinite. There are others in whom it is an over- 

 powering passion ; happy men, born with the pro- 

 ductive, or at lowest, the appreciative, genius of 

 the Artist. But, in the mass of mankind, the 

 ^Esthetic faculty, like the reasoning power and 

 the moral sense, needs to be roused, directed, and 

 cultivated ; and 1 know not why the develop- 



