certain habits,
moral or intellectual. Nothing short of this can be his aim, if, as
becomes the Successor of the Apostles, he is to be able to say with St.
Paul, "Non judicavi me scire aliquid inter vos, nisi Jesum Christum, et
hunc crucifixum." Just as a commander wishes to have tall and well-formed
and vigorous soldiers, not from any abstract devotion to the military
standard of height or age, but for the purposes of war, and no one thinks
it any thing but natural and praiseworthy in him to be contemplating, not
abstract qualities, but his own living and breathing men; so, in like
manner, when the Church founds a University, she is not cherishing talent,
genius, or knowledge, for their own sake, but for the sake of her
children, with a view to their spiritual welfare and their religious
influence and usefulness, with the object of training them to fill their
respective posts in life better, and of making them more intelligent,
capable, active members of society.

Nor can it justly be said that in thus acting she sacrifices Science, and,
under a pretence of fulfilling the duties of her mission, perverts a
University to ends not its own, as soon as it is taken into account that
there are other institutions far more suited to act as instruments of
stimulating philosophical inquiry, and extending the boundaries of our
knowledge, than a University. Such, for instance, are the literary and
scientific "Academies," which are so celebrated in Italy and France, and
which have frequently been connected with Universities, as committees, or,
as it were, congregations or delegacies subordinate to them. Thus the
present Royal Society originated in Charles the Second's time, in Oxford;
such just now are the Ashmolean and Architectural Societies in the same
seat of learning, which have risen in our own time. Such, too, is the
British Association, a migratory body, which at least at times is found in
the halls of the Protestant Universities of the United Kingdom, and the
faults of which lie, not in its exclusive devotion to science, but in
graver matters which it is irrelevant here to enter upon. Such again is
the Antiquarian Society, the Royal Academy for the Fine Arts, and others
which might be mentioned. This, then, is the sort of institution, which
primarily contemplates Science itself, and not students; and, in thus
speaking, I am saying nothing of my own, being supported by no less an
authority than Cardinal Gerdil. "Ce n'est pas,