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vincing witnesses, that the years 1914-1918 form the 

 climax in the annals of the human race, and the 

 implications that follow therefrom in our outlook on 

 the world. We shall look for greatness not in the 

 past but in the present, and for the sources of great- 

 ness not to our ancestors but to the creative element 

 and the spirit of science in ourselves. The scientific 

 spirit of honest and unprejudiced inquiry for the pure 

 love of truth is not to be confined to concrete things. 

 It is as essential to the proper understanding of the 

 laws of God and man as it is to those of Nature, for 

 they also are the continuously growing and developing 

 expressions of the conceptions which are practically 

 summed up, so far as they are living, by the word 

 Duty. But when we leave the past behind, as 

 children leave their youth, and press forward to the 

 discovery and apprehension of the new, we create 

 and join forces with the other great creative agency 

 of Art. After a chequered career of successive 

 patronage by kings and courts, priests and patricians, 

 municipalities and millionaires, creative Art still 

 wanders in the world, a vagabond without a home. 

 Its rightful place is in the university alongside of 

 science. And for the inscription of our ideal uni- 

 versity, upon which the actual universities of the 

 future will be founded, we might do worse than to 

 alter, if it is permissible, the words of Keats in 

 accord with the spirit of modern science and modern 

 heroism 



"Beauty and Truth and Duty that is all 

 Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." 



In taking leave of the Scientific Association I 

 have now inflicted upon you, I suppose for the last 

 time, what I notice have come to be referred to in 

 the press as my well-known views, and it only 

 remains for me to bid you farewell. I hope and 



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