ID B ENE-F I T O r 
deavor to inftlll into the minds of young peo- 
ple a contempt for umveHities, and to with- 
draw the ftudious from thefe feats of learning, 
fuggefl very pernicious advice $ ftot confider- 
ing that in thefe ftorehoufes of knowledge 
much greater, and more excellent things may 
be attained by means of experience in a very 
iHort fpace of time, than by the moft multifa- 
rious, moft indefatigable, and moft extenfive 
fading at home all one’s life. 
If i may be allowed to fpeak what is really 
fad, this our university may contend with any 
foreign one whatever for true, and folid learn- 
Ing in all thefe parts of knowledge, which i 
have enumerated, oWftg to our noble, and 
exemplary inftitutions. For we begin to ex- 
cell in botanical gardens, in hofpitals, in ap- 
paratus’s for experimental philofophy, in ana- 
tomical preparations, and other helps for arts 
and fciences, and to excell fo much that we 
are likely in time, by the blefling of the al- 
mighty, to be inferior to no univerfity. 
Although fome univerfities excell others on 
account of certain advantages peculiar to 
themfelves for in proportion as one kind of 
knowledge in this, or that nation is held 
in greater, or lefs efteem, and is therefore 
more 
