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knowledge lies in the application of scientific methods of 

 inquiry to the ascertainment of the facts of existence ; 

 that the ascertainable is infinitely greater than the ascer- 

 tained, and that the chief business of the teacher is not 

 so much to make scholars as to train pioneers. 



From this point of view, the University occupies a 

 position altogether independent of that of the coping- 

 stone of schools for general education, combined with 

 technical schools of Theology, Law, and Medicine. It is 

 not primarily an institution for testing the work of 

 schoolmasters, or for ascertaining the fitness of young 

 men to be curates, lawyers, or doctors. 



It is an institution in which a man who claims to 

 devote himself to Science or Art, should be able to find 

 some one who can teach him what is already known, and 

 train him in the methods of knowing more. 



I include under Art, — Literature, the pictorial and 

 plastic art with Architecture, and Music ; and under 

 Science, — Logic, Philosophy, Philology, Mathematics, and 

 the Physical Sciences. 



The question of the connection of the High Schools 

 for general education, and of the technical schools of 

 Theology, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Art, Music, and 

 so on, with the University is a matter of practical detail. 

 Probably the teaching of the subjects which stand in the 

 relation of preliminaries to technical teaching and final 

 studies in higher general education in the University 

 would be utilised by the colleges and technical schools. 



All that I have to say on this subject is, that I see no 

 reason why the existing University of London should not 

 be completed in the sense I have defined by grafting 

 upon it a professoriate with the appropriate means and 

 appliances, which would supply London with the analogue 

 of the Ecole des hautes Etudes and the College de France 

 in Paris, and of the Laboratories with the Professor 

 Extraordinariiis and Privat Docenten in the German 

 Universities. 



