4-6 UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL. 



as tlie moral nature of in an is greater than the intellec- 

 tual; for veracity is the heart of morality. 



But the man who is all morality and intellect, al- 

 though he may be good and even great, is, after all, only 

 half a man. There is beauty in the moral world and in 

 the intellectual world ; but there is also a beauty which 

 is neither moral nor intellectual the beauty of the 

 world of Art. There are men who are devoid of the 

 power of seeing it, as there are men who are born deaf 

 and blind, and the loss of those, as of these, is simply 

 infinite. There are others in whom it is an overpower- 

 ing passion ; happy men, born with the productive, or 

 at lowest, the appreciative, genius of the Artist. But, 

 in the mass of mankind, the ^Esthetic faculty, like the 

 reasoning power and the moral sense, needs to be roused, 

 directed, and cultivated ; and I know not why the devel- 

 opment of that side of his nature, through which man 

 has access to a perennial spring of ennobling pleasure, 

 should be omitted from any comprehensive scheme of 

 University education. 



All Universities recognise Literature in the sense of 

 the old Rhetoric, which is art incarnate in words. Some, 

 to their credit, recognise Art in its narrower sense, to a 

 certain extent, and confer degrees for proficiency in 

 some of its branches. If there are Doctors of Music, 

 why should there be no Masters of Painting, of Sculpture, 

 of Architecture ? I should like to see Professors of the 

 Fine Arts in every University ; and instruction in some 

 branch of their work made a part of the Arts curriculum. 



