66 On the Campus 



erature, even if as yet you own not one! Dr. McCosh, 

 president of Princeton College, once when an old man 

 read in chapel that famous thirteenth chapter of first 

 Corinthians, which contains the phrase, "For we know 

 in part" . He stopped and turned upon his audience 

 that scholarly face, lit up with wonderful light and 

 crowned with the crown of age ; ' ' For we know in part, ' ' 

 he said. ' ' But we know ! ' ' Now you have it ! All these 

 days, these years, we have been learning, and now at last 

 we find as a result that we know, indeed; and we 

 know in part only. But the eyes of our understandings 

 have been opened; whereas we were blind, now we see, 

 we know I We have been learning ; yea, verily : we have 

 been learning to know ! 



But this matter of receptive education goes farther 

 still, means more than anything I have so far suggested 

 or described. Permit me to illustrate once more : 



As You Like It is your favorite play, the sweetest, 

 purest, most delightful piece of human fancy ever writ- 

 ten. Touchstone, as you remember, is a clown, but wise 

 and witty ; only by profession, a fool. The shepherd is 

 talking with Touchstone : 



"How like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone f " 

 ' * In respect it is solitary ... in the fields, it pleaseth 

 me well. . . Hast thou any philosophy in thee, Shep- 

 herd!" 



Then the shepherd goes on: 



"No more but that I know the more one sickens, the 

 worse at ease he is; that the property of rain is to wet, 

 and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, 

 and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun." 



