320 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE 



tricity: as a land which science, practically applied, has 

 made great in peace and mighty in war I ask you 

 whether this "land of old and just renown" has not a 

 right to expect from her institutions a culture more in 

 accordance with her present needs than that supplied by 

 declension and conjugation? And if the tendency should 

 be to lower the estimate of science, by regarding it ex- 

 clusively as the instrument of material prosperity, let it 

 be the high mission of our universities to furnish the 

 proper counterpoise by pointing out its nobler uses lift- 

 ing the national mind to the contemplation of it as the 

 last development of that "increasing purpose' 7 which runs 

 through the ages and widens the thoughts of men. 



