Oxford, Kovemlier 15th. Oxford, Kovemlier 15th.
• ,S,tal Ain. not the Duly-reader who took Professor Newman to assert that combining moral with intellectual culture in a University is,sure to be noxious, "mephitic," to the latter. I rejoice -that we may henceforth understand him to .Olesld the separative.-system not as the waysbot as away: to combine is good, to ,separate is good also. Intellectual teaching, moral teaching, moral training, -which Oxford combines, are in London committed, the 'Grit to professors, sft third to parents or rather parents delegates, the second-to both or neither. Imust only ask, whether thenbvious parents' detegatesare not rather University professors than ,keepers. of boarding-houses; as at school, the master, not the dame is reatpopaible? , Can a coarse of general, iestrnetion be other than a moral ,proceeclipg ? eau art and science ignore their relation to human life? Can I talk to the wind without being overheard by the spirit? and can I speak to my. pupils of.free-will and jestiee, And ellow them unadmonialled to be slaves of passion and kelflsbnosS? But if Umversity leaching.must, be moral, and moral teachers almost ineviugdy.pass,on to.morat training, why discard; those to call in others?—others, the very efficiency of ,whose -morel training must. consist greatly in reference to moral ideas, for which we are sent back to the- moral teacher. The idea of the New University is lint surely this unnatural divorce, but edu- _catkin, intellecthel alikisand moral, freed from the timictintolerance of a worn-out dogrnatiam The example of the older institutions la .combining those three, so Imidrect elements, does not surely merit neglect—is an example hither for which the putty owes them that best of berme assistance or even compulsion to self- .refortn. 'For 14, it from .me to, shackle young awyers, or shopmen, With .dishonest .sebaeriptions, tediousobtalusivestheologics. But ;both. by them and by the Landon students I believe an organization culture is_ needed, whose pattern, as the modern musket. in the matchlock, may be re- cognised in our obsolete machinery here. • Forthe emancipation of study, it-may have been needful to put aside morals altogether :- to separate was perhaps good once, to recombine will surely be good now. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, Atztla.
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