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and there was studied ; namely, in his dogmatic treatises on 
Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics, and not in his far 
stronger genius as a natural historian and zoologist. 
Is it to be wondered that the wrench thus suddenly given 
produced molecular change ? that the impulse overran the neu- 
tral point P and that those who previously had been commended 
for accurate knowledge of the metaphysical attributes of God, 
should require time to learn the internal economy of a Holo- 
thurian, the exact chemical constitution of ethylic-diethvloxa- 
mate, or the formula for Carnot’s reversible Heat-engine ? Even 
now, within an aee of thirty years from this intellectual cataclysm, 
poor old Oxford is only just recovering from a protracted state 
of vertigo, and settling down again to useful work. It is sad 
that she should have to chronicle the early loss of one who has 
been a main agent in the revolution. The Linacre professor 
of Physiology, who began as an orthodox First-classman in the 
school of Litterce Humaniores in 1850, dies in 1881 at the age of 
fifty- two an advanced exponent of modern views in Anthropology.. 
In the modern University of London, instituted forty years 
ago, we see another phase of the phenomenon which has been 
ably and convincingly commented upon by Dr. Bristowe, in a 
pamphlet confidentially communicated at first to Earl Granville, 
the Chancellor, but now publici juris. His object is mainly 
connected with the special study of Medicine, and the susten- 
tation of the profession to which he and the present writer 
specially belong. But he makes incidentally so many shrewd 
and convincing comments on science-teaching and on its general 
tendencies, that they fully deserve reproduction. He com- 
mences by observing that for some reason or other the Uni- 
versity of London has hitherto failed to take that position in 
relation to the medical profession which the founders of the 
University doubtless expected of it, and which it is important 
it should hold. He shows that in forty years only 761 candi- 
dates have graduated in medicine, or an annual average of 
nineteen, only representing a single man for each of the medical 
schools in England. He compares this poor result with those of 
the Universities of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Edinburgh, even 
with those of Glasgow, of Aberdeen, and of the Queen’s Uni- 
versity in Ireland. After commenting on several possible causes 
of this comparative failure, he continues : — 
. 1 But is it not possible that the examinations are too exacting, and so tend 
to starve the University and do injustice to the candidates ? And is it cer- 
tain either that the medical graduates owe their intellectual eminence to the 
ordeal to which they have been subjected, or that they have any such collec- 
tive pre-eminence as justifies the plea for maintaining the present exclusive- 
ness of their body P 
