The university can add no
new departments of knowledge, can offer no new fields of mental
activity; but what it can do is to intensify and specialise the
instruction in each department. Thus literature and philology,
represented in the elementary school by English alone, in the university
will extend over the ancient and modern languages. History, which, like
charity, best begins at home, but, like charity, should not end there,
will ramify into anthropology, archaeology, political history, and
geography, with the history of the growth of the human mind and of its
products in the shape of philosophy, science, and art. And the
university will present to the student libraries, museums of
antiquities, collections of coins, and the like, which will efficiently
subserve these studies. Instruction in the elements of social economy, a
most essential, but hitherto sadly-neglected part of elementary
education, will develop in the university into political economy,
sociology, and law. Physical science will have its great divisions of
physical geography, with geology and astronomy; physics; chemistry and
biology; represented not merely by professors and their lectures, but by
laboratories, in which the students, under guidance of demonstrators,
will work out facts for themselves and come into that direct contact
with reality which constitutes the fundamental distinction of scientific
education.
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