by the charter in the admission of any student, or pupil,
and in which many hundreds of youths of different religious
persuasions, have been educated and prepared for professional and
other pursuits, many of whom have already honourably distinguished
themselves in the clerical, legal and medical professions, as also
in mercantile and other branches of business.

6th. That Victoria College is justly entitled to share in the
Legislative provision for superior education, according to the
number of students in the collegiate and academical courses of
instruction.

7th. That we affectionately entreat the members of our Church, to
use their influence to elect, as far as possible, public men who
are favourable to the views expressed in the foregoing resolutions,
and do equal justice to those who wish to give a superior religious
education to the youth of the country, as well as those who desire
for their sons a non-religious education alone.

Dr. Ryerson concluded his speech on the 26th April. Towards its close he
said:--[One of the speakers] thought to amuse the Committee, by a
reference to an expression of mine, used in a letter written by me
several years since, that I had meditated my system of public
instruction for this country--(for I contemplated the whole system from
the primary school to the University)--on some of the highest mountains
in Europe, and said, using a very elegant expression, it must therefore
be rather "windy." ... No one can have read the history of Greece or
Scotland, or the Northern and Western parts of England, without knowing
that, from elevated and secluded places, some of the finest inspirations
of genius have emanated which have ever been conceived by the mind of
man. There are mountains in Europe where the recluse may stand and see
beneath him curling clouds, and roaring tempests spending their
strength, while he is in a calm untroubled atmosphere, on the summit of
a mountain of which it may be said,

"Though round his breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on his head."

And I ask whether it was unphilosophical for an individual who had
examined the educational systems of various countries, and who was
crossing the Alps, to retire to a mountain solitude, and there, in the
abode of that "eternal sunshine," and in the presence of Him who is the
fountain of light, to contemplate a syst