ou know.
Wisdom is innate in the gown and band;
Their wearers are the wisest of the land.

~125~~

Science, except in Oxford, is a dream;
In all things heads of houses are supreme {9}
Proctors are perfect whosoe'er they be;
Logic is reason in epitome:
Examiners, like kings, can do no wrong;
All modern learning is not worth a song:
Passive obedience is the rule of right;
To argue or oppose is treason quite:{10}
Mere common sense would make the system fall:
Things are worth nothing; words are all in all."

On his return, the ancient glanced at the work I had been reading, and
observing the passage I have just quoted, continued his remarks upon the
discipline of the schools.--"In the new formed system of which we boast,"
said the master, "the philosophy which has enlightened the world
is omitted or passed over in a superficial way, and the student is
exercised in narrow and contracted rounds of education, in which his
whole labour is consumed, and his whole time employed, with little
improvement or useful knowledge. He has neither time nor inclination to
attend the public lectures in the several departments of philosophy; nor
is he qualified for that attendance. All that he does, or is required
to do, is to prepare himself to pass through these contracted rounds;
to write a theme, or point an epigram; but when he enters upon life,
action, or profession, both the little go, and the great go, he will
find to be a by go; for he will find that he has gone by the best part
of useful and substantial learning;

9 Know all men by these presents, that children in the uni-
versities eat pap and go in leading strings till they are
fourscore. --Terro Filius.

10 In a work quaintly entitled "Phantasm of an University,"
there occurs this sweeping paragraph, written in the true
spirit of radical reform: "Great advantages might be
obtained by gradually transforming Christ Church into a
college of civil polity and languages; Magdalen, Queen's,
University, into colleges of moral philosophy; New and
Trinity into colleges of fine arts; and the five halls into
colleges of agriculture and manufactures."

126~~ or that it has gone by him: to recover which he must repair from
this famous seat of learning to the institutions of the metropolis, or
in the provincial