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should it be our aim to train doctors, surgeons, teachers, lawyers, 

 engineers, clergymen, statesmen, and men of business ; but, above 

 all, we should never forget the primary importance of producing 

 the philosophic habit of mind, and the possession of all those 

 great principles which co-ordinate the various branches of know- 

 ledge. The indispensable necessity of this will be sufficiently 

 obvious when we reflect that even a single man, endowed with a 

 correct and accurate understanding, may affect the entire course 

 of thought, and at the same time modify the whole current of 

 events for a generation or more. 



*'*The ideal University will be that whose own comprehensive- 

 ness is best reflected in the catholicity of its students' views, its 

 elevation in their enthusiasm, its freedom in the variety of their 

 conditions and pursuits. 



** *In these days of wealth, luxury, ease, and pleasure, the truer 

 happiness off'ered by the study of Nature and the Muses should 

 be made accessible to those who cannot or do not wish to enter 

 for protracted courses of study. Nor is it the less requisite to 

 endeavour, by rendering the more abstruse subjects popularly 

 interesting, to enable the masses to rise from poverty, unen- 

 lightenment, distress, and misery. The principle applies alike 

 to the uncultured rich and to the uncivilised poor. For the 

 ensuring a healthy public opinion, and, consequently, the best 

 form of government, there is required more education for the 

 rich and also for the needy. The spirit of philosophy thus 

 invoked and obtained would do much to guard us against the 

 application of crude and violent legislative remedies against evils 

 ingrained in human nature and society by the mere iorce of cir- 

 cumstances. In so far as Universities foster such a spirit, and 

 effect the establishment of a high standard of culture among us, 

 all must perceive how great is their value to a nation, and how 

 earnestly we should desire their progress to a still wider and 

 more potent influence.' 



" Whatever ideas we may entertain as to the knowledge which 

 maybe gained in the dim and distant future by mankind; however, 

 we may in our own minds answer the question whether the 

 human beings which will be evolved in coming ages will or will 

 not be able to cope successfully with the wonderful mysteries 

 involved by the fact of man's existence in this world; at any rate 

 there is one point respecting the possibilities open to us which 



