Science and Citizenship 



taming and domesticating him. In no other way, 

 probably, can his disforestings and devastations 

 be effectually stopped, and his destructive energies 

 converted to more constructive ideals. 



If we define a university as a degree-granting 

 institution, then there are over 700 universities in 

 the United States of America. It is the aspiration 

 of every American city to possess its own univer- 

 sity. The university is, in a sense, the cathedral 

 a somewhat truncated one doubtless of the 

 American city, and every citizen is unhappy until 

 his city gets what he conceives to be its full com- 

 plement of culture, in the possession of a univer- 

 sity. Here as elsewhere the principle holds cujus 

 regio, ejus religio and we may agree with Herder's 

 saying, "that the school is the workshop of the 

 spirit of God," provided we are allowed the proviso 

 of defining the divine artificer as the God of that 

 region. Minerva is building again her temples over 

 the land, and nowhere more assiduously than in 

 the United States. 



These 700 to 800 American universities are, it is 

 true, reduced to more modest dimensions in the im- 

 partial list of the Minerva Jahrbuch. The German 

 compilers of this annual census of the academic 

 world admit only 70 universities in the United 

 States. This number compares with a list of 21 

 universities in Germany, 16 in France, 18 in Great 

 Britain, 78 in the rest of Europe, and for the whole 

 world 236. 



How far may we accept a certain vague popular 

 sentiment which attributes city rank to a town that 



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