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have sometimes made a palace and called it a 

 university." 



Half the fortune of the founder had gone to this 

 university ; the other half to the foundation of a 

 great and splendidly equipped hospital for Baltimore. 

 This was the reason why the discussion of medical 

 training occupies fully half of the address upon the 

 general principles of education, in which, indeed, lies 

 the heart of his message to America, a message already 

 delivered to the old country, but specially appropriate 

 for the new nation developing so rapidly in size and 

 physical resources. 



I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree im- 

 pressed by your bigness or your material resources, as 

 such. Size is not grandeur, territory does not make a 

 nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true 

 sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is, what 

 are you going to do with all these things ? . . . 



The one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is 

 the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual 

 citizen. Education cannot give these, but it can cherish 

 them and bring them to the front in whatever station of 

 society they are to be found, and the universities ought 

 to be and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the 

 nation. 



This address was delivered under circumstances of 

 peculiar difficulty. The day before, an expedition 

 had been made to Washington, from which Huxley 

 returned very tired, only to be told that he was to 

 attend a formal dinner and reception the same 

 evening. "I don't know how I shall stand it," he 



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