40 EMILE BOUTROUX 



What then is needed in order that human 

 intelhgence may make real for men, in 

 the sense in which it is proper and possible, 

 that universality of culture towards which we 

 ought to strive? 



The means of encouraging in the most in- 

 timate and fruitful way that mutual mingling 

 of intelligences, would be to unite under the 

 same roof and to invite to a common life, men, 

 devoted to different sciences, already some- 

 what advanced in their respective studies, but 

 still young enough to have supple minds. 



If these young men form bonds of friend- 

 ship, as is natural between noble and generous 

 hearts in love with higher culture, their life 

 together will not only be charming and a joy, 

 it will bring about insensibly an enlargement 

 of their minds, it will give to each of them 

 an idea of sciences and of methods of intel- 

 lectual activity which he, by himself, has not 

 the leisure to cultivate, and so it will lead the 

 young men on the road towards that univer- 

 sality of comprehension and of sympathy 

 which is the ideal of human culture. 



The creation of a community like the Grad- 



