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should happen. Instruction in English, French, and 

 German is provided, and thus the three greatest litera- 

 tures of the modern world are made accessible to the 

 student. 



French and German, and especially the latter lan- 

 guage, are absolutely indispensable to those who desire 

 full knowledge in any department of science. But 

 even supposing that the knowledge of these languages 

 acquired is not more than sufficient for purely scien- 

 tific purposes, every Englishman has, in his native 

 tongue, an almost perfect instrument of literary ex- 

 pression ; and, in his own literature, models of every 

 kind of literary excellence. If an Englishman cannot 

 get literary culture out of his Bible, his Shakspeare, 

 his Milton, neither, in my belief, will the profoundest 

 study of Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, 

 give it to him. 



Thus, since the constitution of the College makes 

 sufficient provision for literary as well as for scientific 

 education, and since artistic instruction is also contem- 

 plated, it seems to me that a fairly complete culture is 

 offered to all who are willing to take advantage of it. 



But I am not sure that at this point the " prac- 

 tical " man, scotched but not slain, may ask what all 

 this talk about culture has to do with an Institution, 

 the object of which is defined to be "to promote the 

 prosperity of the manufactures and the industry of 

 the country." He may suggest that what is wanted 

 for this end is not culture, nor even a purely scientific 

 discipline, but simply a knowledge of applied science. 



