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alight and alive amongst us more intensely than ever. 

 Nor is it the monopoly of a class, profession or 

 religion. Duty, like Truth and Beauty, is one of the 

 universal values without which a university cannot 

 live, but, of all, even less than Truth owes to any 

 Faculty of Science, or Beauty to the Faculty of Arts, 

 does Duty, as a living, burning flame in our midst, 

 owe to the Faculties of Law and Divinity. 



We have had no academical lesson of the stern 

 reality of duty. As a memorial let us install in our 

 universities, not only a pure Faculty of Art, charged 

 with and carrying on the creative work which, rather 

 than their languages, made our ancestors great, but 

 also a pure Faculty of Duty, pursuing the tasks 

 which, in these days, have fallen from flaccid hands. 

 The duties which I am advocating should be the 

 concern of a pure university Faculty of Duty, to be 

 studied like a natural science solely in the interests 

 of the advancement of knowledge and the love of 

 truth, are the duties of the twentieth century, as 

 distinct from mythological, ancient or feudal man, 

 rather than the codes and creeds, the survival of 

 which brings into contempt our whole ethical system. 

 In earlier times, more corrupt or more openly corrupt 

 than our own, the profession of the law was magnified, 

 rather than the research aspect into the application 

 of its principles and spirit to modern life, which is now 

 the most pressing need. The status, emoluments 

 and pensions, for example, of judges were fixed on a 

 scale such as to make them superior to the temptation 

 of bribery. To-day the power of money and its con- 

 centration into the hands of wealthy corporations 

 makes, on the one hand, such a device absurd, and, 

 on the other, we have a more generally developed 

 sense of public honour, which makes it seem nothing 

 remarkable that duties calling for equal integrity and 

 incorruptibility should be honestly done without such 



