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every Bursch marches with a professor's gown in 

 his knapsack. Let him become a great scholar, 

 or man of science, and ministers will compete for 

 his services. In Germany, they do not leave the 

 chance of his holding the office he would render 

 illustrious to the tender mercies of a hot canvass, 

 and the final wisdom of a mob of country 

 parsons. 



In short, in Germany, the universities are 

 exactly what the Rector of Lincoln and the 

 Commissioners tell us the English universities are 

 not ; that is to say, corporations "of learned men 

 devoting their lives to the cultivation of science, 

 and the direction of academical education." 

 They are not " boarding schools for youths," nor 

 clerical seminaries ; but institutions for the higher 

 culture of men, in which the theological faculty is 

 of no more importance, or prominence, than the 

 rest ^ and which are truly "universities," since 

 they strive to represent and embody the totality 

 of human knowledge, and to find room for all 

 forms of intellectual activity. 



May zealous and clear-headed reformers like 

 Mr. Pattison succeed in their noble endeavours to 

 shape our universities towards some such ideal as 

 this, without losing what is valuable and distinc- 

 tive in their social tone ! But until they have 

 succeeded, a liberal education will be no more 

 obtainable in our Oxford and Cambridge Univer- 

 sities than in our public schools. 



