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anfwer any queftions that may be put to them by the fludents, 
whether in the le<fiure-room or privately. The profeffors mod 
diffcinguifhed by academical ardour encourage fuch queftions very 
much, and are highly delighted when they find in them proofs 
not only of diligence, but of genius; for, not to take for granted 
every thing that is given out, but to hefitate, to doubt, and to 
ftart difficulties, is fo far to be confidered as a mark of genius, as 
it fhews that other powers of the mind are at work befides mere 
conception and memory. I have been told by different perfons, 
both in Ireland and Scotland, that the celebrated Hutchinfon, 
profeffor of moral philofophy in the univerfity of Glafgow, and 
author of a book on morals, which makes all virtue to confifl in 
benevolence, prompted by a moral fenfe, was wont to live, as it 
w 7 ere, and converfe w 7 ith his pupils, as if they had been his equals 
and companions. There was never a day that paffed when he did 
not walk even for hours in the college gardens with fome of his 
fludents, of whofe capacity he entertained a good opinion, or with 
one that chofe to converfe with him, and atk any queftion. In 
the evenings, in like manner, he always had a number of them at 
his houfe. 
The fcience of theology, if it admits of any progreffive im¬ 
provement, has certainly experienced none in the univerfity of 
Lund, w r here orthodoxy reigns in its mofl rigid form. The ca¬ 
liph Omar was not more firmly perfuaded that every thing ne- 
ceffary or proper to be known by man was contained in the Ko¬ 
ran, than the profeffors of divinity at Lund are, that there is 
nothing 
