52 UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL. [LECT. 



Moreover, I would urge, that a thorough study of 

 Human Physiology is, in itself, an education broader 

 and more comprehensive than much that passes under 

 that name. There is no side of the intellect which it 

 does not call into play, no region of human knowledge 

 into which either its roots, or its branches, do not 

 extend; like the Atlantic between the Old and the 

 New Worlds, its waves wash the shores of the two 

 worlds of matter and of mind ; its tributary streams 

 flow from both ; through its waters, as yet unfurrowed 

 by the keel of any Columbus, lies the road, if such 

 there be, from the one to the other ; far away from 

 that North-west Passage of mere speculation, in which 

 so many brave souls have been hopelessly frozen up. 



But whether I am right or wrong about all this, 

 the patent fact of the limitation of time remains. As 

 the song runs : 



" If a man could be sure 



That his life would endure 

 For the space of a thousand long years ' 



he might do a number of things not practicable under 

 present conditions. Methuselah might, with much 

 propriety, have taken half a century to get his doctor's 

 degree; and might, very fairly, have been required 

 to pass a practical examination upon the contents 

 of the British Museum, before commencing practice 

 as a promising young fellow of two hundred, or there- 

 abouts. But you have four years to do your work 

 in, and are turned loose, to save or slay, at two or 

 three and twenty. 



Now, I put it to you, whether you think that, 



