mblage is moulded together, and gains one tone and one character.

Let it be clearly understood, I repeat it, that I am not taking into
account moral or religious considerations; I am but saying that that
youthful community will constitute a whole, it will embody a specific
idea, it will represent a doctrine, it will administer a code of conduct,
and it will furnish principles of thought and action. It will give birth
to a living teaching, which in course of time will take the shape of a
self-perpetuating tradition, or a _genius loci_, as it is sometimes
called; which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and
forms, more or less, and one by one, every individual who is successively
brought under its shadow. Thus it is that, independent of direct
instruction on the part of Superiors, there is a sort of self-education in
the academic institutions of Protestant England; a characteristic tone of
thought, a recognized standard of judgment is found in them, which, as
developed in the individual who is submitted to it, becomes a twofold
source of strength to him, both from the distinct stamp it impresses on
his mind, and from the bond of union which it creates between him and
others,--effects which are shared by the authorities of the place, for they
themselves have been educated in it, and at all times are exposed to the
influence of its ethical atmosphere. Here then is a real teaching,
whatever be its standards and principles, true or false; and it at least
tends towards cultivation of the intellect; it at least recognizes that
knowledge is something more than a sort of passive reception of scraps and
details; it is a something, and it does a something, which never will
issue from the most strenuous efforts of a set of teachers, with no mutual
sympathies and no intercommunion, of a set of examiners with no opinions
which they dare profess, and with no common principles, who are teaching
or questioning a set of youths who do not know them, and do not know each
other, on a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by
no wide philosophy, three times a week, or three times a year, or once in
three years, in chill lecture-rooms or on a pompous anniversary.

10.

Nay, self-education in any shape, in the most restricted sense, is
preferable to a system of teaching which, professing so much, really does
so little for the mind. Shut your College gates against the votary of
knowledge, throw h