IX ADDRESS ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 257 



It appears to me that what I have ventured to 

 lay down as the principles which should govern 

 the relations of a university to education in 

 general, are entirely in accordance with the 

 measures you have adopted. You have set no 

 restrictions upon access to the instruction you 

 propose to give ; you have provided that such 

 instruction, either as given by the university or 

 by associated institutions, should cover the field 

 of human intellectual activity. You have recog- 

 nised the importance of encouraging research. 

 You propose to provide means by which young 

 men, who may be full of zeal for a literary or 

 for a scientific career, but who also may have 

 mistaken aspiration for inspiration, may bring 

 their capacities to a test, and give their powers 

 a fair trial. If such a one fail, his endowment 

 terminates, and there is no harm done. If he 

 succeed, you may give power of flight to the 

 genius of a Davy or a Faraday, a Carlyle or a 

 Locke, whose influence on the future of his fellow- 

 men shall be absolutely incalculable. 



You have enunciated the principle that " the 

 glory of the university should rest upon the 

 character of the teachers and scholars, and not 

 upon their numbers or buildings constructed for 

 their use." And I look upon it as an essential 

 and most important feature of your plan that 

 the income of the professors and teachers shall be 

 independent of the number of students whom 



