pport that claim, but to those who
dispute it. I have argued in its behalf, first, from the consideration
that, whereas it is the very profession of a University to teach all
sciences, on this account it cannot exclude Theology without being untrue
to its profession. Next, I have said that, all sciences being connected
together, and having bearings one on another, it is impossible to teach
them all thoroughly, unless they all are taken into account, and Theology
among them. Moreover, I have insisted on the important influence, which
Theology in matter of fact does and must exercise over a great variety of
sciences, completing and correcting them; so that, granting it to be a
real science occupied upon truth, it cannot be omitted without great
prejudice to the teaching of the rest. And lastly, I have urged that,
supposing Theology be not taught, its province will not simply be
neglected, but will be actually usurped by other sciences, which will
teach, without warrant, conclusions of their own in a subject-matter which
needs its own proper principles for its due formation and disposition.

Abstract statements are always unsatisfactory; these, as I have already
observed, could be illustrated at far greater length than the time
allotted to me for the purpose has allowed. Let me hope that I have said
enough upon the subject to suggest thoughts, which those who take an
interest in it may pursue for themselves.

Discourse V.

Knowledge Its Own End.

A University may be considered with reference either to its Students or to
its Studies; and the principle, that all Knowledge is a whole and the
separate Sciences parts of one, which I have hitherto been using in behalf
of its studies, is equally important when we direct our attention to its
students. Now then I turn to the students, and shall consider the
education which, by virtue of this principle, a University will give them;
and thus I shall be introduced, Gentlemen, to the second question, which I
proposed to discuss, viz, whether and in what sense its teaching, viewed
relatively to the taught, carries the attribute of Utility along with it.

1.

I have said that all branches of knowledge are connected together, because
the subject-matter of knowledge is intimately united in itself, as being
the acts and the work of the Creator. Hence it is that the Sciences, into
which our knowledge may be said to be cast, have multiplied