competition of to-day, which follows from the freer and 

 more individual educational training of the United States 

 and of Germany, is found to be that as a rule the graduate, 

 on leaving the University, naturally transfers the con- 

 centration of mind, which has become habitual to him 

 through his research work, to the profession on which he 

 enters, whatever it may be. He gives to his profession 

 the first place in his life, bringing to bear upon it that 

 whole-hearted devotion and enthusiasm without which, at 

 the present day, mediocre success, at the best, is all that 

 can be looked for. 



In sharp contrast to this state of things, in this country, 

 on the other hand, it is well known with what languid 

 inattention and listlessness, not to say scarcely veiled 

 contempt and disgust, only too frequently those who 

 leave the Universities and higher schools regard the work 

 of their profession or their official duties, and to which 

 consequently they give grudgingly the fewest possible 

 hours of soul-less attention. It is not to such men that 

 we can look for successors to the great men who have 

 passed away, or are still living, as in commerce to Rhodes 

 and to Carnegie, or in science to Newton, Faraday, and 

 Darwin. 



In addition to the intellectual influence of a training 

 in research upon the students themselves, the official 

 recognition by the Universities of an original investigation 

 of some subject, as a necessary condition of obtaining the 



higher academical honours, could scarcely fail to bring 



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