ADMINISTRATIVE MHTLISM 



the most modest of tangible rewards, th> 

 making themselves useful to their age and gener 

 tion. And this is just what the State does whei 

 it founds a public library or museum, or provide 

 the means of scientific research by such grants of 

 money as that administered by the Royal Society 

 It is one thing, again, for the State to take 



the higher education, of the nation into its 

 hands ; it is nnnt.hpj V> st.irmilate and to 

 they are yet young and weak, local efforts to tin 

 same end. The Midland Institute, Owens Colleg< 

 in Manchester, the newly-instituted Science Col- 

 lege in Newcastle, are all noble products of 1< 

 energy and munificence. But the good they 

 doing is not local the commonwealth, to 

 uttermost limits, shares in the benefits they con] 

 fer ; and I am at a loss to understand upoi 

 what principle of equity the State, which adinii 

 the principle of payment on results, refuses 

 ^give a fair equivalent for these benefits; or 01 

 what principle of justice the State, which admi 

 the obligation of sharing the duty of primal 

 education with a locality, denies the existencJ 

 of that obligation when the higher education m 

 in question. 



To sum up: It' thf positive advaim-m. 

 the jir:itv. \\ralth, and the intellectual and moral 

 development of its members, are objects which 

 the Government, as the representative of th 

 coiporate authority of society, may justly si 



