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the very best thing you had to show, I 

 should say without a moment's hesitation 

 it is the high school buildings here and the 

 high school buildings we have seen in the 

 other cities as we have passed along — 

 emblems, as they are, of the educational 

 system which in the very establishment of 

 its high schools recognizes the fact that 

 there are superior individuals who are 

 worthy a better education than is oifered 

 by primary and grammar schools below. 



But it does not do to stop there. And I 

 am glad to see that the State of Colorado 

 has started already the development of a 

 university which by its prosperity shows 

 the earnestness with which it has been 

 founded, the devotion which has been spent 

 upon fostering it and which stands as one 

 of the highest marks to the credit of the 

 State. I believe that the very best that 

 we could do for you would be to contribute 

 something to the public recognition of the 

 value of the State University. It seems to 

 me that no citizen of Colorado who has the 

 highest ideal for the future of the state can 

 feel that the state has done its full duty 

 until it has developed its university, not 

 only as it has begun, but farther in the 

 same direction, until it shall have become 

 one of the great universities of the coun- 

 try — I would even say one of the great 

 universities of the world. It is not enough 

 for you to work here for the development 

 of your material resources. ' It is not 

 enough for you to apply science. We who 

 are carrying on our investigations supply 

 the power, we generate the steam pressure, 

 and the practical man — if I may be par- 

 doned for the innuendo — is the crank which 

 transmits the power to a practical purpose. 

 Unless a state is doing its quota towards 

 the increase of knowledge, it is fulfilling 

 only a part of its duty. If, therefore, our 

 coming here can have such an influence 

 upon any of you as to increase the belief in 

 the value of your university and to spread 



that belief among you, making it deeper 

 rooted in the innermost convictions of your 

 great community that the university is the 

 greatest thing in the state, we shall have 

 done a service to you which will show we 

 are grateful for all the magnificent hospi- 

 tality which has been proffered us, for the 

 perfection of the arrangements made here 

 for our comfort, and that we appreciate 

 your words of welcome, those which have 

 come to us from the Governor, from the 

 Mayor of the city, from the representatives 

 of the business interests of your community 

 and of your educational system. All this 

 we take to heart and we beg to thank you 

 for it with all the sincerity with which we 

 appreciate it. And in return we would 

 offer you this thought which is the inspira- 

 tion of the professor — that the country is 

 governed by universities, because what is 

 done in the country is done by the men 

 who think, who come out into the world 

 with thoughts which were never there be- 

 fore ; and the men who do that, with very 

 rare exceptions, are men who have had 

 their minds severely disciplined by univer- 

 sity training. If you look back through 

 the history of the United States and recall 

 men who as statesmen, as inventors, as 

 authors, were creators of any kind of new 

 intellectual product, you will find that 

 there is but a trifling number among those 

 great men who have not come from the 

 universities. And, therefore, it is true as 

 a historical fact that this country is gov- 

 erned by the universities, and there is not 

 a complete government in any state, in the 

 opinion of the members of this Associa- 

 tion — I am sure in the opinion of all of 

 them — until there is a great, well-equipped, 

 richly endowed and largely attended uni- 

 versity. It is therefore to me the greatest 

 pleasure to say that Colorado has begun 

 with this ambition, and I hope with all my 

 heart that you will carry it through to a 

 fulfilment corresponding to the extraordi- 



