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worldly advantages, and from paying- undue homage to the 

 prejudices of society. I think Sittenstrenge may be considered 

 as more or less adequately rendered by the words severe simplicity of 

 manners ; at any rate, as things are known by their opposites, let 

 me say that it is the exact contradictory of that 'profound idleness 

 and luxuriousness' which, we are told by an excellent authority 

 (the Rev. Mark Pattison, ' Suggestions on Academic Organization,' 

 p. 241), — for whose accuracy I would vouch in this matter were 

 there any need so to do, — ' have corrupted the nature ' of a large 

 class of young men amongst ourselves ; whilst the absence of a 

 spirit of self-seeking is, in its turn, the contradictory of a certain 

 character which Mr. Mill (1. c. p. 90) has said to be one of the 

 commonest amongst us adults, and to which Mr. Matthew Arnold 

 has assigned the very convenient epithet of ' Philistine.' Investiga- 

 tion as to whether these undesirable tendencies are really becoming 

 more rife amongst us, might be carried on with advantage in a 

 place such as this ^, in the way of inquiries addressed to colonists 

 returning home after a successful sojourn abroad. Such persons are 

 able to note differences without prejudice, and, ex hypothesi, with 

 unjaundiced eyes, which we are apt to overlook, as they may have 

 grown up gradually and slowly. But, perhaps, researches of this 

 kind are not quite precisely the particular kind of investigation 

 with which we should busy ourselves ; neither would the leaders of 

 fashion, the persons with whom all the responsibility for this 

 illimitable mischief rests, be very likely to listen to any statistics 

 of ours, their ears being filled with very different sounds from any 

 that, as I hope, will ever come from Section D. Whether men of 

 science in England are more or less amenable to blame in this 

 matter than the rest of their countrymen, it does not become us to 

 sayj but it does become and concern us to recollect that we have 

 particular and special reasons, and those not far to seek, nor 

 dependent on authority alone, for believing and acting upon the 

 belief that real success in our course of life is incompatible with 

 a spirit of self-seeking and with habits of even refined self- 

 indulgence. 



* [Liverpool, where this Address was delivered.— Editob.] 



