6 SCIENCE AND CULTURE. [LEOT. 



Sir Josiah Mason, without doubt most wisely, has 

 left very large freedom of action to the trustees, to 

 whom he proposes ultimately to commit the adminis- 

 tration of the College, so that they may be able to 

 adjust its arrangements in accordance with the chang- 

 ing conditions of the future. But, with respect to 

 three points, he has laid most explicit injunctions 

 upon both administrators and teachers. 



Party politics are forbidden to enter into the 

 minds of either, so far as the work of the College is 

 concerned ; theology is as sternly banished from its 

 precincts ; and finally, it is especially declared that 

 the College shall make no provision for " mere literary 

 instruction and education. " 



It does not concern me at present to dwell upon 

 the first two injunctions any longer than may be 

 needful to express my full conviction of their wisdom. 

 But the third prohibition brings us face to face with 

 those other opponents of scientific education, who are 

 by no means in the moribund condition of the practi- 

 cal man, but alive, alert, and formidable. 



It is not impossible that we shall hear this express 

 exclusion of "literary instruction and education" 

 from a College which, nevertheless, professes to give a 

 high and efficient education, sharply criticised. Cer- 

 tainly the time was that the Levites of culture would 

 have sounded their trumpets against its walls as 

 against an educational Jericho. 



How often have we not been told that the study 

 of physical science is incompetent to confer culture ; 

 that it touches none of the higher problems of life ; 



