230 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. IX 



whose doings, of course, would be checked by the Medical 

 Council 



Our side has been too apt to look upon medical schools 

 as feeders for Science. They have been so, but to their 

 detriment as medical schools. And now that so many 

 opportunities for purely scientific training are afforded, 

 there is no reason they should remain so. 



The problem of the Medical University is to make an 

 average man into a good practical doctor before he is 

 twenty -two, and with not more expense than can be 

 afforded by the class from which doctors are recruited, or 

 than will be rewarded by the prospect of an income of 

 £400 to £500 a year. 



It is not right to sacrifice such men, and the public 

 on whom they practise, for the prosjsect of making 1 per 

 cent of medical students into men of science.— Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



An undated draft in his own handwriting (prob- 

 ably the draft of a speech delivered the first time 

 he came to the committee as President, October 26) 

 expands the same idea as to the modern requirements 

 of the University : — 



The cardinal fact in the University question appears 

 to me to be this : that the student to whose wants the 

 mediaeval University was adjusted, looked to the past 

 and sought book-learning, while the modern looks to the 

 future and seeks the knowledge of things. 



The mediaeval view was that all knowledge worth 

 having was explicitly or implicitly contained in various 

 ancient writings ; in the Scriptures, in the writings of 

 the greater Greeks, and those of the Christian Fathers. 

 Whatever apparent novelty they put forward, was 

 professedly obtained by deduction from ancient data. 



The modern knows that the only source of real 



