238 ADDEESS ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION is 



social existence ; to have acquired the rudiments 

 of the physical and psychological sciences, and 

 a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and 

 geometry. He should have obtained an acquaint- 

 ance with logic rather by example than by precept ; 

 while the acquirement of the elements of music 

 and drawing should have been pleasure rather 

 than work. 



It may sound strange to many ears if I venture 

 to maintain the proposition that a young person, 

 educated thus far, has had a liberal, though per- 

 haps not a fall, education. But it seems to me 

 that such training as that to which I have re- 

 ferred may be termed liberal, in both the senses in 

 which that word is employed, with perfect accuracy. 

 In the first place, it is liberal in breadth. It 

 extends over the whole ground of things to be 

 known and of faculties to be trained, and it gives 

 equal importance to the two great sides of human 

 activity art and science. In the second place, 

 it is liberal in the sense of being an education 

 fitted for free men ; for men to whom every career 

 is open, and from whom their country may demand 

 that they should be fitted to perform the duties 

 of any career. I cannot too strongly impress 

 upon you the fact that, with such a primary edu- 

 cation as this, and with no more than is to be 

 obtained by building strictly upon its lines, a man 

 of ability may become a great writer or speaker, 

 a statesman, .a lawyer, a man of science, painter, 



