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inquiry on all topics, and cannot fully satisfy it on 

 any. There is not time enough in an undergraduate 

 course to quench the intellectual thirst which the 

 culture given there is intended to produce. One 

 does not learn history in college, nor politics, nor 

 law, nor medicine, so much as the right method of 

 learning them ; and least of all is there time to settle 

 the great problems in ethics and Christian apolo- 

 getics. The young man must be taught, however, 

 that he is free to make full inquiry ; and, unless it 

 be insisted on that he shall make this for himself, the 

 probability is that his mental unrest will be increased 

 from some suspicion on his part that inquiry is 

 thought by his instructors to be dangerous. 



The only precaution I ask for is, that men will 

 enter, not only upon free, but upon full inquiry ; not 

 only upon special investigation, but upon all-sided 

 investigations as to Christian apologetics. [Ap- 

 plause.] 



In most of our colleges there is a tendency to 

 push all professional learning upward into profes- 

 sional schools. We are crowding out of college 

 courses much matter downward upon the preparatory 

 schools; and we are crowding matter upward into 

 the theological, and legal, and medical institution... 

 Thus it is a result of the narrowness of the time in a 

 four-years' course, that we have very many men who 

 have been through college, who do not know any- 

 thing more of theology than of law and medicine. It 

 is not expected they should. It is not the business 

 of a four-years' course to make a man a physician, a 



