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I quote from a Report to the Board of the 

 Faculty of Arts made just before the war on 

 a proposed new Honour School, the subject 

 of which should be the principles of phi- 

 losophy considered in their relation to the 

 sciences. That joint action of this kind 

 should have been taken by the Boards of 

 Arts and of Science indicates a widespread 

 conviction that no man is cultivated up to 

 the standard of his generation who has not 

 an appreciation of how the greatest achieve- 

 ments of the human mind have been reached ; 

 and the practical question is how to introduce 

 such studies into the course of liberal educa- 

 tion, howto give the science school the leaven 

 of an old philosophy, how to leaven the 

 old philosophical school with the thoughts 

 of science. 1 



1 Since I wrote this lecture, Professor J. A. Stewart has sent me 

 his just-published essay on Oxford after the War and a Liberal 

 Education , in which he urges with all the weight of his learning 

 and experience that the foundations of liberal education in Oxford 

 should be "No Humane Letters without Natural Science and no 

 Natural Science without Humane Letters.** 



