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ment of that side of his nature, through which 

 man has access to a perennial spring of en- 

 nobling pleasure, should be omitted from any 

 comprehensive scheme of University education. 



All Universities recognise Literature in the 

 sense of the old Rhetoric, which is art incarnate in 

 words. Some, to their credit, recognise Art in its 

 narrower sense, to a certain extent, and confer 

 degrees for proficiency in some of its branches. If 

 there are Doctors of Music, why should there be 

 no Masters of painting, of Sculpture, of Architec- 

 ture ? I should like to see Professors of the Fine 

 Arts in every University ; and instruction in some 

 branch of their work made a part of the Arts 

 curriculum. 



I just now expressed the opinion that, in our 

 ideal University, a man should be able to obtain 

 instruction in all forms of knowledge. Now, by 

 " forms of knowledge " I mean the great classes of 

 things knowable ; of which the first, in logical, 

 though not in natural, order is knowledge relatingto 

 the scope and limits of the mental faculties of man, 

 a form of knowledge which, in its positive aspect, 

 answers pretty much to Logic and part of 

 Psychology, while, on its negative and critical side, 

 it corresponds with Metaphysics. 



A second class comprehends all that knowledge 

 which relates to man's welfare, so far as it is deter- 

 mined by his own acts, or what we call his con- 

 duct. It answers to Moral and Religious philos- 



