38 UNIVERSITIES : ACTUAL AND IDEAL. [LECT. 



ask you not to rest and be thankful in this state of 

 satisfaction ; if I ask you to consider awhile, how this 

 actual good stands related to that ideal better, towards 

 which both men and institutions must progress, if they 

 would not retrograde. 



In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man 

 should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of 

 knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods 

 by which knowledge is obtained. In such an University, 

 the force of living example should fire the student 

 with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of 

 learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the ex- 

 plorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air 

 he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm 

 for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater 

 possession than much learning ; a nobler gift than the 

 power of increasing knowledge ; by so much greater 

 and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is 

 greater than the intellectual ; for veracity is the heart 

 of morality. 



But the man who is all morality and intellect, 

 although he may be good and even great, is, after all, 

 only half a man. There is beauty in the moral world 

 and in the intellectual world ; but there is also a 

 beauty which is neither moral nor intellectual the 

 beauty of the world of Art. There are men who are 

 devoid of the power of seeing it, as there are men who 

 are born deaf and blind, and the loss of those, as of 

 these, is simply infinite. There are others in whom it is 

 an overpowering passion ; happy men, born with the 

 productive, or at lowest, the appreciative, genius of the 



