38 UNlYEPwSITIES : ACTUAL AND IDEAL. 



he had in view. For, in a couple of centuries, the 

 schools he sowed broadcast produced their crop of men, 

 thirsting for knowledge and craving for culture. Such 

 men gravitating towards Paris, as a light amidst the 

 darkness of evil days, from Germany, from Spain, from 

 Britain, and from Scandinavia, came together by natu- 

 ral affinity. By degrees they banded themselves into 

 a society, which, as its end was the knowledge of all 

 things knowable, called itself a "Studium Generate;" 

 and when it had grown into a recognised corporation, 

 acquired the name of " Universitas Studii Generalis" 

 which, mark you, means not a " Useful Knowledge So- 

 ciety," but a " Knowledge-of -things-in-general Society." 



And thus the first " University," at any rate on 

 this side of the Alps, came into being. Originally it 

 had but one Faculty, that of Arts. Its aim was to be 

 a centre of knowledge and culture; not to be, in any 

 sense, a technical school. 



The scholars seem to have studied Grammar, Logic, 

 and Rhetoric; Arithmetic and Geometry; Astronomy; 

 Theology; and Music. Thus, their work, however im- 

 perfect and faulty, judged by modern lights, it may 

 have been, brought them face to face with all the 

 leading aspects of the many-sided mind of man. For 

 these studies did really contain, at any rate in embryo 

 sometimes, it may be, in caricature what we now 

 call Philosophy, Mathematical and Physical Science, 

 and Art. And I doubt if the curriculum of any mod- 

 ern University shows so clear and generous a compre- 



